This study examines one of the unintended consequences of ICT investments in developing economies. Although ICT has helped developing countries create links with the global marketplace, which in turn has stimulated economic growth during the good times, it has also synchronized these economies such that the global economic crisis has also affect them. This paper specifically studies the questio...

Given societies’ massive investment in information technology and the potentially catastrophic consequences of IT failures, it is becoming increasingly critical to understand how IT management policies influence IT management practice and, ultimately, organizational success in implementing and employing information technology. This paper describes a study that took place in a large government a...

The ASBMB is not in favor of such an award. Economic incentives typically benefit the group receiving the direct investment. Thus, emeritus awards will benefit eligible senior scientists; however, even with the stipulation that the award focus on mentoring, its effects, if any, on junior faculty members will be difficult to discern. Moreover, as discussed in point 6, such an award mechanism may...

Upon the use of mobile computing technologies, organizations will realize expected benefits and encounter unintended consequences. This paper focuses on the potential impact of the use of mobile computing technologies on organizational controls. Drawing on the notion of disciplinary power, we argue that mobile computing devices can potentially act as a constant “invisible gaze” on the users. Un...

This article probes the classic definition of religious aesthetics as related to the notions of beauty, goodness and truth. The phenomenon of kitsch, understood as simulation (or inversion) of beauty, goodness and truth, is taken cognisance of, especially in the light of contributions by Milan Kundera, Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard. The article briefly reflects on the liturgical consequences...

Learning with mobiles seems to have obvious advantages as an educational technology in what is often called the 'developing world' or the 'global South' and there is indeed currently a lot of activity and interest. This does however often seem to be informed by inappropriate theorising or by none at all. The purpose of this paper is to encourage the mobile learning research community to theoris...

Due to the introduction of assistant robot systems, the complete separation of the human from the robot’s workspace is no longer the only option for operation. Therefore, the discussion on the safety assessment of robotic systems needs to be promoted. The injuries a human can suffer from in an unintended collision must be identified and evaluated together with possible enhancements in design an...

The first part of this work deals with the development of a natural differential calculus on non-commutative manifolds. The second part extends the equivalence principle and studies its kinematical consequences. It turns out that the mathematical language developed leads to interesting consequences.

In the past 10 years, China has grown its higher education sector into the largest in the world. At the same time, growing international integration of Chinese institutions means increasing cross-fertilization of ideas across national borders. While the literature on these developments has focused largely on their economic implications, this study asks what they mean politically. In light of cu...

This paper reports a proof of concept by applying a model originally presented in 2004 to four firms. The model has been slightly revised to reflect input from conference attendees and 49 Executive MBA students who applied the model to their organization. The model now represents the impact of technical and application specific domain knowledge on potential impact of an information system as mo...