Many authors have argued that digital technologies enable collaboration without central oversight or authority, obviating the need for hierarchical bureaucracies characterize industrial capitalism. In this context, Wikipedia is often mentioned as a paradigmatic example. We draw on classical accounts of Robert Michels and Max Weber to study mechanisms pushing towards away from power concentratio...

Parallelism may reside in the input of a program rather than the program itself. A script interpreter, for example, is hard to parallelize because its dynamic behavior is unpredictable until an input script is given. Once the interpreter is combined with the script, the resulting program becomes predictable, and even parallelizable if the input script contains parallelism. Despite recent progre...

E-government initiatives are in their infancy in many developing countries. The success of these initiatives is dependent on government support as well as citizens’ adoption of e-government services. This research identified the attitudes and perceptions of the citizens of Kuwait, a developing country, towards the adoption of e-government services. Based on previous research exploring the deter...