In this paper, we investigate whether a regulation that mandates a greater proportion of outside directors on a corporate board results in a more independent board. Instead of taking the fraction of outside directors directly as the measure of board independence, we define it as the nominal independence level. The real independence level of the board is determined by both the nominal independen...

The literature on incentive contracting suggests that the optimal performance pay contract depends on a tradeoff between productivity and agency costs. The effect of employee ability on this tradeoff is theoretically ambiguous, as the employee’s private gains (through more sophisticated gaming responses) may exceed the employer’s productive benefits. Similarly, employees’ “adverse learning” abo...

Unintended but auspicious discoveries have been credited with ground-breaking global advancements in medicine and science. At the same time, less tangible breakthroughs have aided advancements and innovation within organizations and on a much smaller scale, growth and development of individuals in personal and work lives. Yet our knowledge of serendipity primarily comes from our observation of ...

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...