Due to an unsatisfying demographic development in most European states, companies have to solve a trade-off between a needed increasement of productivity on the other hand and fewer highly skilled employees on the other hand. In this paper, authors propose factors for different layers of a framework to manage scarce resources in IT-departments. These layers aim for different relevant dimensions...

Four methods for reviewing a body of research literature – narrative review, descriptive review, vote-counting, and meta-analysis – are compared. Meta-analysis as a formalized, systematic review method is discussed in detail in terms of its history, current status, advantages, common analytic methods, and recent developments. Meta-analysis is found to be underutilized in IS. Suggestions on enco...

A simple PubMed search confirms the intuitive thinking that human epigenetics and human microbiome research have received considerable attention in the recent years (13,082 and 28,446 hits, respectively). It is therefore astonishing that the two fields are very rarely studied together (118 results for ‘human epigenetics microbiome’ search, but only 3 actual research articles among literature re...

This paper reports on an investigation of the teaching context of first-year Information and Communications Technology (ICT) courses at Australian universities and the influences of this on students’ learning experiences. This is part of a larger project which aimed to identify and disseminate good practices in ICT teaching at Australian universities with a specific focus on the first-year expe...

OBJECTIVES The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (JRCD) has published important contributions to both criminological theory and associated empirical tests. In this article, we consider some of the challenges associated with traditional approaches to social science research, and discuss a complementary approach that is gaining popularity-agent-based computational modeling-that may off...

Although 10 studies have been published on the empirical overlap of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and measures of self-reported attachment style, results in this literature have been inconsistently interpreted in narrative reviews. This report was designed as a rapprochement of the AAI and attachment style literatures and includes 3 studies. Study 1 (combined N = 961) is a meta-analytic ...

A literature review was conducted in order to assess the instructional effectiveness of various audiovisual media for teaching adults. The study was aimed at identifying which media are most appropriate for each of several specific learning tasks. Comparative effectiveness studies and research on media, learner, and task variables were judged to be the most potentially valuable. The major cr...

In spite of its potential impact on current business world, cloud computing technology still offers fertile and untapped research opportunities. We conduct a systematic literature reviews for the purpose of identifying research gaps in cloud computing literature. It included 188 referred journal and conference articles. Each article was studied carefully to understand its general theme and then...

Previous research has found that organizational innovations are important for organizations’ long-term competitive advantage and for technical innovations. In spite of this conclusion, organizational innovations remain poorly managed and poorly understood, especially the processes through which organizational innovations are created, diffused, and sustained. There is thus a need for a more comp...

Projected climatic changes for the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for the period 2025-2100 will be most intense in the warmest period of the year with more frequent and more intense heat-waves, droughts and flood events compared with the period 1961-1990. The country has examined their vulnerabilities to climate change and many public health impacts have been projected. A variety of qual...