Scholars have proffered a number of theoretical explanations for the phenomenon that corporate ownership is diffuse in some countries and highly concentrated in others. One explanation, the social democracy theory, holds that leftist ideology weakens a variety of corporate governance mechanisms and thus prevents the separation of ownership from control in social democracies, where leftist ideol...

The article examines the complex relationships among the sociological concept of socio-spatial segregation, urban poverty and health promotion, suggesting research topics that could contribute to a detailed analysis of the Brazilian social reality within the public health context, underpinning decisions on healthcare. Initially, the main aspects of the social division problems in major cities a...

Blogs emerged in the late 1990s as a technology that allows Internet users to share information. As an emerging advertising medium, blog advertising still faces challenges related to lukewarm consumer responses and unclear regulations governing commercial blog speeches. In this study, the concept of social influence was employed to examine its effects on consumer’s use of blog advertising. A qu...

Real-time location tracking of individuals has become relatively easy with the widespread availability of commercial wearable devices that use geographical positioning information to provide location-based services. One application of this technology is to allow parents to monitor the location of their children. This paper investigates child location tracking technology in the US and the UK and...

Web Service is one of the most important information sharing technologies on the web and one of the example of service oriented processing. To guarantee accurate execution of web services operations, they must be accountable with regulations of the social networks in which they sign up. This operations implement using controls called “Commitment”. This paper studies commitments , then has an ov...

This paper examines the role of social rewards as a corrective mechanism for activities which generate externalities. The focus of this paper is on the circumstances under which social rewards provide effective and feasible incentive mechanism that may replace laws and regulations. In particular, social mechanism is effective only in a society in which individuals who care about their standing ...

Social media content is used in various applications for businesses, organizations and citizens. However, there are technical limitations for analyzing content from social media; these include the way how data can be gained and which safety regulations as well as query limitations have to be considered. They are of specific importance when designing applications for time critical scenarios, suc...