With rapid increase in the number of users, services, educational content, and required resources, educational institutions face new challenges in design and deployment of IT infrastructure for e-education. This chapter deals with defining and developing a model of IT infrastructure for e-learning by using cloud computing concept. The first challenge is adoption and implementation of digital id...

The world wide web provides an integrating platform for intra and inter-organizational systems. Understanding how the many actors interested in web infrastructure influence design, development and practice can provide insight as to how organisations can manage and make effective use of web infrastructure. The socio-technical perspective views information systems as being socially constructed by...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based quality improvement models for depression have not been fully implemented in routine primary care settings. To date, few studies have examined the organizational factors associated with depression management in real-world primary care practice. To successfully implement quality improvement models for depression, there must be a better understanding of the relevant orga...

We analyze how uncertainty regarding future climate conditions affects the design of concession contracts, organizational forms and technological choices in a principal-agent context with dynamic moral hazard, limited liability and irreversibility constraints. The prospect of future, uncertain productivity shocks that affect the returns on the firm’s effort creates an option value of delaying e...

Mobile computing, the so-called Internet of Things, and the rapid expansion of Internet connectivity all over the world are combining to challenge long-standing assumptions about the mission, function, and reach of traditional organizational forms. Uber is a fast-growing company with several unique attributes: its drivers are not employees, the company does not own the majority of its productiv...

The growing interconnectivity of computer systems has dramatically increased the risk of exposure or corruption of information through the exploitation of system security vulnerabilities. Many aspects of organizational operations and of the national infrastructure depend upon the correct operation of computers and networks. Security is a fundamental requirement for the health of the public ente...

Cloud computing is an emerging industry in Taiwan. Since this industry relies heavily on information communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, a telecom operator can play an important role in the establishment of cloud computing industry. In this paper, we adopt an organizational legitimacy approach to understand how a telecom company in Taiwan develop legitimacy strategy for cloud computi...

Cloud computing is an emerging industry in Taiwan. Since this industry relies heavily on information communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, a telecom operator can play an important role in the establishment of cloud computing industry. In this paper, we adopt an organizational legitimacy approach to understand how a telecom company in Taiwan develop legitimacy strategy for cloud computi...

In this paper, referring to the Model for General Knowledge Management within the Enterprise (MGKME), the author emphasizes two of the operating elements of this model, which are essential to insure the organizational learning process that leads to the appropriate use of concepts, methods, and tools of innovative technology: “Ad hoc Infrastructures” and “Organizational Learning Processes”. Nona...