Priorliteraturehasutilizedmanytheoriestoexplainanorganization’spost-adoptiontechnologyuse ofsocialmediaplatforms,butnoneofthecommonmodelsincludestatusaseitheraprimaryora moderatingvariable.Thisisasignificantgapintheliteraturebecausestatusisastructuralenabler andinhibitorthatdeterminesacceptableandunacceptablebehaviorinagivensetting.Ina...

Social capital as a focus for organizational maintenance and development due to the mechanistic focus of organizational activity is emerging as an area of increasing interest. The research broadens this focus to the realm of system development. In this interpretation social capital is defined as the relationships that make the organization work effectively. It is the mechanisms of relationship ...

The growing presence of the products of nanotechnology in the public domain raises a number of ethical questions. This paper considers whether existing environmental ethics can provide some guidance on these questions. After a brief discussion of the appropriateness of an environmental ethics framework for the task at hand, the paper identifies a representative environmental ethic and uses it t...

What is the meaning of better corporate financial reporting? How can financial reporting be improved? There are many claims of shortcomings of financial reporting. Conflicts among these claims point to the political elements of the problem inherent in collective choice in a society. Since ‘‘better” depends on the interest group whose perspective is chosen for analysis, politics lies at the hear...

We characterize the outcome of majority voting for single–peaked preferences on median spaces. This large class of preferences covers a variety of multi–dimensional policy spaces including products of lines (e.g. grids), trees, and hypercubes. Our main result is the following: If a Condorcet winner (i.e. a winner in pairwise majority voting) exists, then it coincides with the appropriately defi...

This paper seeks to generate insights into how delegation and intervention strategies can be applied to manage product innovation within networks. Hence, it concerns the main theme of this year’s conference: influencing and strategizing in networks. The paper commences with a brief introduction to the literature background and explains the concepts of network delegation and intervention. It rep...

response theory modeling is affected by the reliability of the items, the test length, the type of aberrant response behavior, and the percentage of aberrant persons in the group. The percentage of simulees defined a priori as aberrant responders that were detected increased when the mean item reliability, the test length, and the ratio of aberrant to nonaberrant simulees in the group increased...