In this paper we report on findings from ten case studies of successful IT-enabled innovation covering a wide range of organisations and projects. They were carried out as an exploratory study to identify practices that contribute to innovation and specifically consider the implications of a focus on innovation for earlier work on benefits-led approaches to IT. We identified a number of practic...

Privacy is widely viewed as an interpersonal boundary regulation process in the context of online social networks (OSNs). Mediated by technologies provided by the OSNs, users manage both identity information and social relationships on OSNs. While previous studies mainly focus on users’ information sharing and disclosure behaviors from an individual perspective, this work looks into the social ...

The main objective of this article is to systematically analyse the impact of IT on financial intermediation and its underlying functions and to discuss how this impact might alter the industry’s value chain. In this context we put forth the thesis, that IT effects the financial services industry in two distinct ways: (1) IT intensifies the different economics underlying brokerage, transformati...

Constructivism has recently gained popularity, although it is not a completely new learning paradigm. Much of the work within e-learning, for example, uses constructivism as a reference “discipline” (explicitly or implicitly). However, some of the work done within the simulation gaming (SG) community discusses what the basic assumptions and implications of constructivism for SG are. Constructiv...

Over the past several years, the growth of Web-based courses in the higher education sector has been explosive. E-learning based on a Web-based course provides the distributed learning environments that involve the active interactions between suppliers and users, and exchanges of information exclusively through the Internet. Most of the existing empirical research in e-learning is based on the ...

the sudden transfer of guardianship, from husband to wife, causing a string of insecurity and additional duties for women. the phenomenon of woman-headed households is increasing for different reasons in the world. studies indicate that, householder women are facing social and economic challenges and constraints. the aim of this study is pathology of social interactions women-headed households ...

Understanding the intentions and desires of those around us is vital for adapting to a dynamic social environment. In this paper, a novel event-related functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) paradigm with dynamic and natural stimuli (2s video clips) was developed to directly examine the neural networks associated with processing of gestures with social intent as compared to nonsocial inte...

this research seeks to explore and examine the semantic implications women's sense of insecurity in public spaces city of social interpretationism approach. in this study, data were collected through semi-structured interviews and gt is used to analyze the data. using theoretical and purposive sampling, 27 women were interviewed. finally, collected data were analyzed and coded in the form ...

We previously developed rat experimental models based on the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm in which only four 15-min episodes of dyadic social interaction with a sex- and weight-matched male Sprague Dawley (SD) rat (1) reversed CPP from cocaine to social interaction despite continuing cocaine training, and (2) prevented the reacquisition/re-expression of cocaine CPP. In a concurre...