Prior research in technology use by individuals has predominantly focused on social influence as perceived by the individual. We take an alternative perspective and drawing from literature on normative influence and social networks, we develop cross-level hypotheses related to the effects of team level social influence on extensiveness of individual technology use. We test the research hypothes...

Mainly in response to the policy drive to avoid unnecessary acute hospital admissions and delayed discharge on social grounds, there has been a gradual development of social work services attached to emergency departments (EDs) in the UK. In the absence of a clearly articulated evidence base or debate about the roles of ED attached social workers, a model of ED based social work practice and in...

In analyzing work with a view to introducing new technologies, a systematic source of inappropriate or inadequate design decisions, which eventually may cause breakdowns and accidents, is posed by the social organization of work if it is not taken into account. This paper argues that analysts engaged in making decisions about the allocation of functionality between human actor and technology sh...

For sustained performance in a dynamic market environment, individuals within an organization must operate in a social network (SN) that promotes knowledge exchanges, encourages knowledge acquisition, and facilitates dissemination of domain knowledge pertinent to the execution of job-related tasks. Research on Knowledge Social Networks (KSN) has hitherto focused on interpersonal social network ...

Until recently, research in social network analysis was focused on single layer networks, where only one type of links among nodes is considered. This approach does not consider the variety of interactions that exist among nodes, resulting in the loss of a large amount of information. In the last few years there is an advanced interest in multilayer networks analysis, where multiple types of no...

The aim of this work is to implement a statistical mechanics theory of social interaction, generalizing econometric discrete choice models. A class of simple mean field discrete models is introduced and discussed both from the theoretical and phenomenological point of view. We propose a parameter evaluation procedure and test it by fitting the model against three families of data coming from di...

We measure the impact of “altmetrics” field by deploying altmetrics indicators using the data from Google Scholar, Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook, Googleplus, CiteULike, Blogs and Wiki during 20102014. To capture the social impact of scientific publications, we propose an index called alt-index, analogues to h-index. Across the deployed indices, our results have shown high correlation among the in...

law is the follower of social changes and its final main aim is to make law system of relation resulted from. simultaneously by human social improvements in the field of communication in recent decades- which calls the present age the age of communication- a concept names electronic government has formed and has changed the model of general services presentation. the entrance of technical infor...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Incorporation of social media (SM) use in medicine is gaining support. The Internet is now a popular medium for people to solicit medical information. Usage of social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, is growing daily and provides physicians with nearly instantaneous access to large populations for both marketing and patient education. The benefits are myriad, bu...

Much effort has been expended in creating online meeting spaces and information resources to foster social networks, create synergies between collocated and remote colleagues, and enhance social capital within organizations. Following the observation that physical corkboards serve an important community building and maintenance function, in this paper we describe a network of large screen, digi...