Introduction: There is a growing consensus that the response to complex and difficult social problems—being the convergence of ageing and disability one of them– requires public agencies to be prepared to work in partnership with other public, civil society and business organisations. However, initiatives aimed at promoting health and social care providers working in partnership have had limite...

Controlled Medical Vocabularies (CMVs) have been studied identify and characterize organized sets of well-specified semantic relationships in the biomedical domain. Results of research on both hierarchical and non-hierarchical associative relationships in existing CMVs are being used to enrich ontological content through the discovery of subclasses, attributes, and relationships, and to enhance...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption is known as an evolutionary process. In this process of adoption, a number of areas in an organization are affected. However, there are a limited number of researches that focus on the effects of SOA adoption in an organization. This study investigated the significant organizational factors affected by SOA adoption during the last six years. The stud...

Firms in China and in Asian-pacific countries normally encounter a governance paradox of being too lenient via relational-based governance or being too strict via contractual-based governance under uncertainty. While both governance mechanisms have been extensively studied separately under inter-firm governance contexts, though some studies showing complementary and substituted as the interacti...

everal sections of the Sarbanes– Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) directly affect the governance of the information technology (IT) organization, including potential SOX certification by the chief information officer, Section 404 internal control assessments, “rapid and current” disclosures to the public of material changes, and authentic and immutable record retention. The Securities and Exchange Commi...

This paper develops a simulation model of the behavior of industrial districts in the face of changes in their environment. By applying Kauffman’s N/K-C model to the question of optimum governance in industrial districts facing an external shock, the paper sheds light on the optimum co-ordination mechanism among agents in interdependent industrial networks. Simulation results indicate that coll...

Hierarchical stimuli have proven effective for investigating principles of visual organization in humans. A large body of evidence suggests that the analysis of the global forms precedes the analysis of the local forms in our species. Studies on lateralization also indicate that analytic and holistic encoding strategies are separated between the two hemispheres of the brain. This raises the que...

In this paper, we use the transaction cost theory [TCT] and the resource-based view [RBV] to discuss three propositions on the models of client-supplier relationships in mature industries. The two theories seem to advance different organizational forms of the client-supplier relationships, and in some instances are contradictory. How should firms organize to prosper and grow, namely in the inte...

The paper tries to explore how ontologies can contribute to information retrieval (IR) systems. Concepts and hierarchical relations of ontologies have been frequently used to expand concepts in queries, while non-hierarchical relations are seldom used in IR systems. We propose frameworks of integrating ontological relations in two parts of an IR system, query expansion and retrieved document or...