Purpose To better understand executive communication on social media, this paper examines the pattern of messages posted by chief executive officers (CEOs) on Twitter and their retweetability (rate of reposting by other users). Design/methodology/approach The study data comprises 1068 original tweets randomly selected from all Fortune 1000 CEOs tweets in 2014. The impact of the contextual facto...

29 Users’ Satisfaction with the Electronic Health Record (EHR) in the Kingdom of Bahrain; Aysha Ebrahim Abdulla, College of Information Technology, University of Bahrain, Sakeer, Kingdom of Bahrain Shurooq Yousif Ahmed, College of Information Technology, University of Bahrain, Sakeer, Kingdom of Bahrain Maryam Abdulrahman Alnoaimi, College of Information Technology, University of Bahrain, Sakee...

Illusory correlation refers to the use of information in decisions that is uncorrelated with the relevant criterion. We document illusory correlation in CEO compensation decisions by demonstrating that information, that is uncorrelated with corporate performance, is related to CEO compensation. We use publicly available data from the USA for the years 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004 to examine the r...

While a number of studies document that organizations go through numerous stages as they increase their commitment to sustainability over time, we know little about the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) in this process. Using survey and interview data we analyze how a CSO’s authority and responsibilities differ across organizations that are in different stages of sustainability com...

Increased uncertainty in the economic and business environments have placed IS function and IS leadership in a quandary today. In this paper, we empirically examine the remuneration of CIOs, and examine their association with firm performance, size and industry membership. Based on compensation data of 213 CIOs in 2002, we test several hypotheses linking the total, annual cash, and long term co...

THE institution of appointments as Honorary Physician and Honorary Surgeon to the Sovereign was the culmination of some fifty years' endeavour to secure for medical officers some reward for distinguished service, and it may be, permissible to review the stages by which this was achieved. The distinCtions generally available to combatant officers at the beginning of the nineteenth century were t...

The inappropriateness in use of public monies has been cited as a major distractor towards achievement development goals enshrined our constitution. It largely attributed to the procurement practices adopted. main objective this study was determine effects information technology on service delivery County governments western Kenya region. target population for entailed 228 officers who were cat...

Despite the important roles chief information officers (CIOs) play in developing information technology (IT) strategies and carrying out IT plans, prior research has not examined the impact of having a formal CIO position on IT investments and firm performance. Drawing on the upper echelons theory and using data from over 250 US firms over the 1999-2003 period, we address how a firm’s CIO posit...

OBJECTIVES Leaders representing healthcare quality, purchasing, and certifying sectors convened at a national leadership meeting to address the issue of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs). A session entitled "The Quality Choir: A Call to Action For Hospital Executives" featured harmonization partner organizations for the National Quality Forum Safe Practices (SPs) for Better Healthcare-200...