Transparency is a concept that is widely shared, but with a wide spectrum of distinct interpretations. We have been working on nailing down the transparency concept within the organizational context. As such, we have created a conceptual model of transparency, focusing on its relationships with other qualities (accessibility, usability, understandability, informativeness and auditability). Depa...

THEAUTHOR DESCRIBES FOUR SUCCESSIVE library retreats held by the Bowling Green State University library staff from 1995 to 1998. The retreats reflect the changes that have occurred in library work and in management theory since the early 1990s. The importance of technology to library work is recognized, but there is also a growing realization that developing a flexible staff-capable of learning...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether it is possible to further specify what is meant when we maintain that patient-centredness as a communication skill is a value-based clinical procedure. DESIGN AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Since a core element in patient-centredness is associated with patients feeling respected, a study regarding encounters where patients felt respected was analysed. RESULTS Similar...

It has been established that normative social influence can be used effectively in persuasive technology. However, it is unknown whether the application of more social pressure makes it more effective. To test this hypothesis, a quantitative experiment was conducted on the online social network Facebook. Although evidence to support the hypothesis was found, it cannot be concluded from this exp...

Motivated by a desire to extend the Social Influence Model of Technology Use, this paper empirically examines the impact of normative social influence on group media preference patterns and group meeting outcomes in a setting where established groups voluntarily used various communication media over a three-month software development project period. The overall results suggest that conformity t...