The resource-based view (RBV) considers organizational routines as fundamental for IT value creation as they determine the efficiency with which firms transform inputs to outputs. Yet, our understanding of how routines affect firm performance is still incomplete, especially concerning the contribution and complementarities between IT and non-IT-resources. As routines involve humans and consist ...

In this paper, we propose a new Social Network Analysis based approach to providing a multi-dimensional picture of the research scenarios of a set of countries of interest and to detecting possible “research hubs” operating therein. This knowledge allows innovation managers to understand the impact of different socio-economic conditions on the research level of a country. Furthermore, it may he...

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Health insurance companies in Brazil have their data about claims organized having the view only for providers. In this way, they loose the physician view and how they share patients. Partnership between physicians can view as a fruitful work in most of the cases but sometimes this could be a problem for health insurance companies and patients, for example a recommendation to visit another phys...

In this project, we attempt to predict the rating a user will give to a restaurant listed on Yelp using Yelp’s Challenge Dataset. Being able to predict the rating a user assigns to a restaurant is helpful when trying to build better recommendation systems on Yelp. We approach the problem from a social network analysis perspective by incorporating Yelp user-user friendship networks in our predic...

E-portfolios constitute a dynamic research topic in e-learning, since they foster a new philosophy for learning and personal development, which is characterised by open, participatory, self-directed, reflective and collaborative processes. This paper presents an investigation on students’ learning presence in a blended post-graduate course, designed to promote self-directed learning through e-p...

The question for the effectiveness of inter-organizational collaboration gains much attraction in the light of social network analysis. We analyze this by the case of Initial Public Offering (IPO) deal networks as this is a valuable example for the repeated collaboration of autonomous organizations on a shared goal and data is publicly available. We use the social networks established through d...