Few investigations have been made to determine what factors influence people in withholding knowledge from their colleagues. We created a construct, knowledge withholding (KW), defined as the likelihood that individuals contribute less knowledge to others in the organization than they could. We have formulated a model, based on social exchange theory and social cognition theory, to analyze the ...

In large process deployments where an enterprise has to model and maintain a large number of processes that are specializations of each other it is advantageous to provide formal support for process specialization called process inheritance. A process inheritance model definition is introduced as well as a process definition language construct for defining process specialization.

Recent studies have confirmed the importance of understanding the cognition of users and information systems (IS) professionals. These works agree that organizational cognition is far too critical to be ignored as it can impact on IS outcomes. While cognition has been considered in a variety of IS contexts, no specific methodology has dominated. A theory and method suitable to the study of cogn...

Mobile applications are verified to check the correctness or evaluated to check the performance with respect to specific security properties such as Availability, Integrity and Confidentiality. Where they are made available to the end users of the mobile application is achievable only to a limited degree using software engineering static verification techniques. The more sensitive the informati...

s ta n da r d t o o l s f o r t e ac h i n g entrepreneurship generally include case studies, business plans and computer simulations. The article presented here reports on classroom experimentations conducted in different European contexts using repertory grids, the methodological tool of Personal Construct Theory (p c t) in entrepreneurship teaching. The innovative entrepreneurship pedagogy i...

the aim of this paper is to study co-prolongations of central extensions. we construct the obstruction theory forco-prolongations and classify the equivalence classes of these by kernels of homomorphisms between 2-dimensional cohomology groups of groups.

Qualitative researchers attempt to document observed phenomena relative to the meanings attributed to the phenomena by research participants involved in the specific incident or situation. Relatively recently, the information systems research community has responded to the call for more of an emphasis on conducting qualitative research. This paper presents three theories, Grounded Theory, Perso...

participants and procedure The study was conducted using the paper-and-pencil method on 77 patients suffering from multiple sclerosis. The theory we applied was Hobfoll’s conservation of resources theory. We also analyzed the impact of personal and situational variables on the functioning of patients with different kinds of resources. results Cluster analysis was used to construct the profiles ...

In order to understand the effects of interaction on User Experience with a range of MP3 players, we used a Personal Construct Theory approach (Kelly 1955) to elicit users’ anticipations and interpretations of their experience with technology. Sixteen participants rated four different MP3 players on a variety of user-generated constructs in the form of rating scales before and after interaction...