Champions of XML have argued that the standard has the potential to influence interbusiness communications more than any other protocol in recent history. The improved structure and efficiency of XML, compared to comma separated value or electronic data interchange transmissions, are difficult to negate. However, diffusion of XML has been far less than anticipated. This study attempts to identi...

Social networks are structures that aim to represent the relationships among the actors of a society. In the multiagent model, these networks depict the dependencies among the agents. The dependencies reflect the relation between the goals of the agents and the agents who have the power to achieve them. Like any social structure, also a multiagent system can be regulated by a set of norms and i...

Social networks are structures that aim to represent the relationships among the actors of a society. In the multiagent model, these networks depict the dependencies among the agents. The dependencies reflect the relation between the goals of agents and agents who have the power to achieve them. Like any social structure, also a multiagent system have to be regulated by a set of norms and insti...

BACKGROUND Modern healthcare is characterized by high complexity due to the proliferation of specialties, professional roles, and priorities within organizations. To perform clinical interventions, knowledge distributed across units, directorates and individuals needs to be integrated. Formal and/or informal mechanisms may be used to coordinate knowledge and tasks within organizations. Although...

Higher education plays a very important role in the development of entrepreneurship as one of the most important concepts in the present era. Higher education, through the transfer of applied knowledge, the creation of skills and abilities required in the field of entrepreneurship, cultural context and research development and support, introduces the concepts of entrepreneurship into the univer...

Champions of XML have argued that the language has the potential to influence inter-business communications more than any other technology in recent history. The improved structure and efficiency of XML, compared to comma separated value or electronic data interchange transmissions, are difficult to negate. However, adoption of XML-based standards has been far less than anticipated. This study ...

Business groups are a prominent enterprise system in most East Asian and emerging economies. This article addresses an important but understudied issue – ownership and control of these large conglomerates. Studying the ownership structure of the top 100 Taiwanese business groups sheds light on the debate between the culturalists and the institutionalists. Culturalists claim family domination ev...