The importance of electronic collaboration has risen as successful organisations recognize that they need to convert their intellectual resources into goods and services their customers will value. The shift from personal computing to interpersonal or collaborative computing has given rise to ways of working that may bring about better and more effective use of intellectual resources. Current e...

Pressure on boards to improve corporate performance and management oversight has led to a series of inquiries and reports advocating governance reform. These reports largely reflect an agency perspective of governance and seek to ensure greater board independence from and control of management. While board independence is important to good governance, we contend that frameworks, models and advi...

Organizations are pursuing the outsourcing of business processes (BPO) to offshore locations. However, current research has shown that a knowledge-sharing gap between the client and vendor organizations leads to less than expected benefits. This research applies social capital theory to study the antecedents necessary for the creation of social and intellectual capital in the BPO relationship a...

The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore how the balance use performance measurement systems mediate effects intellectual capital dimensions including human, organizational and social on firm performance. data were collected from a survey 448 Vietnamese managers Information Communication Technology Sector proposed hypotheses tested by using partial least squares regression structural...

The World Report on Disability relates concerns about the experiences of individuals with intellectual disability in disaster situations. Disaster planning related to people with intellectual disability needs to consider that (1) they experience disproportionate risk in disaster situations, (2) they are often excluded from relief processes and are disadvantaged in disaster support situations, (...

Online content distribution businesses require methods to protect the intellectual property of distributed content. Intellectual property protection is a mechanism to protect the rights of ownership of original work so that no one can use the rights-protected work in any way without seeking permission for the use and, if necessary, paying the rights owners a royalty for the use. Digital waterma...

Intellectual diversity – difference – has long been used in human affairs to minimise the impact of mistakes. In the past couple of decades design diversity has been used to seek dependability in software-based systems. This use of design diversity prompted the first formal studies of the efficacy of intellectual diversity. In this paper we examine diverse arguments – in particular arguments to...