The scope of this study was to discuss the administrative sustainability of Brazil's Vocational Health Schools (ETSUS) based on the principle of teaching and service integration, which brings a new dimension to healthcare work as yet unregulated by Brazilian public administration. It was a qualitative study using case study methodology. The research involved a semi-structured questionnaire give...

Purpose – The main purpose of this article is to discuss if an enterprise system (ES) is a part of an organization’s administrative paradox. The questions raised here is which role the ES has in organizing, focusing aspects of flexibility and stability. Design/Methodology/Approach – This study is a qualitative, longitudinal, case study of how an ES maintain, and even reinforce, existing adminis...

Despite the significant advances that software and hardware technologies have brought to the emergency management field, some islands remain where innovation has had little impact. Among them, emergency plan management is of particular relevance due to their key role in the direction of teams during responses. Aspects like coordination, collaboration, and others are spread in plain text sentenc...

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) has become a popular technique for security purposes with increasing accessibility of information and data, especially in large-scale enterprise environments. However, authorization management in dynamic and ad-hoc collaborations between different groups or domains in these environments is still an unresolved problem. Traditional RBAC models cannot solve this pr...

Inter-organisational applications require improved support from middleware services. This paper analyses the management requirements of multidomain applications, covering both technological domains and organisations (administrative business domains). The analysis leads to a suggested middleware solution for these needs, presenting a group of cooperative, pervasive management services that use a...