social cohesion represents the interaction and linkage of the society, is a most important reason of different institutional performance to achieve economic development. the purpose of this paper is to estimate social cohesion and the relation of social cohesion with economic development for 85 selected developed and developing countries in 2010. in this research the social cohesion index have ...

European Journal of Information Systems (2008) 17, 1–3. doi:10.1057/ejis.2008.1 Six excellent articles are yours in this issue of EJIS To what degree do we adopt IT because it’s just plain ‘fun’? Is this ‘fun’ motive seriously influenced by the opinions of those around us? From three Vienna Universities, Dickinger, Arami, and Meyer join those bold researchers who investigate the adoption of IT ...

This editorial introduces the new, online, open-access journal Research Involvement and Engagement. The journal considers manuscripts on any aspect of the engagement or involvement of patients, carers or members of the public in design, delivery and dissemination of research in health or social care. We support the involvement of patients in the production of the journal, as co-authors, as revi...

social commerce, a new stream in e-commerce, enables hyper-informed consumers to support the businesses in new product development. hyper-informed consumers are the results of online communication provided by social media. these consumers have been empowered by web 2.0 technologies to have online communication, which drives value for the companies in new product development. trust is one the va...

In SJIS volume 20 (2008), Mathiassen and Nielsen analyzed engaged scholarship in Scandinavian IS research. They conclude that the collaborative research practice and tradition for conducting action research projects might be jeopardized by a recent and general tendency to publish in compliance with traditional IS research publication channels: Investing a substantial amount of time in collabora...