Social exclusion is a multi dimensional phenomenon that manifests itself in the exclusion of an individual from one or more of the four following activities: production of goods and services, consumption, civil engagement, and social interaction. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been argued to have the potential to reduce these forms of social exclusion. However, the exten...

The article examines the European Commission’s use of its legal powers over mergers. It discusses and tests two views. One is that the ‘neo-liberal’ Commission has ended previous industrial policies of aiding ‘national champion’ firms to grow through mergers and instead pursues a ‘merger constraining’ policy of vigorously using its legal powers to block mergers. The other is that the Commission...

Historical perspectives are only timidly entering the world of IS research compared to historical research in management or organization studies. If major IS outlets have already published history-oriented papers, the number of historical papers although increasing remains low. We carried out a thematic analysis of all papers on History and IS published between 1972 and 2009 indexed on ABI and ...