In distributed work environments, collaborators often lack situation awareness, which can be described as knowledge about what is happening in an individual’s work environment. Thus, information systems are needed to support situation awareness between distributed workers. However, despite its relevance, the concept lacks the clear theoretical understanding needed for a rigorous specification a...

Factors leading to financial reform The financial system of a country, regardless of time or place, is maintained to meet the economic conditions of that country. In the process of economic development, however, there occur new economic or technological conditions that foster change of the financial system: the coherence between the old financial system and the new conditions breaks down; inter...

The ability to infer intentions of other agents, called theory of mind (ToM), confers strong advantages for individuals in social situations. Here, we show that ToM can also be maladaptive when people interact with complex modern institutions like financial markets. We tested participants who were investing in an experimental bubble market, a situation in which the price of an asset is much hig...

This research lies in using science and information technology to improve the existing investment framework. A framework, called EFPIF (e-Financial Process Integration Framework), was proposed that can come to financial information and investment analysis integration, and provide an interaction framework to investors, investment advisory corporation, dealer in securities, bank, and quoted compa...

This article describes the individualisation of advisories in the financial services sector, especially the consideration of situations and roles. An important aspect in this context is the connection between the requirements imposed by the law (consumer protection and data protection) and the individualisation. Discussing this topic the article concludes that the individualisation benefits fro...

The current financial crisis reminds us about previous economic crisis that have remained in history, as well as of large bankruptcies that were largely debated within trade literature, which themselves also comprise similarity elements with nowadays situation. We therefore couldn’t agree more with George Bernard Shaw who used to say that “We learn from history that we learn nothing from histor...

The Disaster Deficit Index (DDI) measures macroeconomic and financial risk in a country according to possible catastrophic scenario events. Extreme disasters can generate financial deficit due to sudden and elevated need of resources to restore affected inventories. The DDI captures the relationship between the economic loss that a country could experience when a catastrophic event occurs and t...