Organizations need to provide effective policies in aligning their social media use with organizational goals to realize the expected benefits of social media. However, while social media use has been studied, social media policy research is lacking. This study aims to examine impacts of social media policy and active use on value creation. Drawing on the Model of IT/Business Value, we assessed...

We explore the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector. We exploit a dataset comprising firmlevel information on a representative sample of 220 electric utilities from 51 development countries for the period 1985 to 2005. Our results indicate that regulatory agencies are associated with more efficient firms and with higher social w...

While the literature on environmental regime effectiveness has focussed on particular regimes considered in isolation, the overall effects of the system of regimes are more relevant. First regimes are connected because they often share institutional architecture, deal with different aspects of the same problem, frame issues using similar legal and policy principles, and are subject to attempts ...

Social service agencies and practitioners are continually challenged to provide services that are effective for, and reflective of, cultural and religious diversity. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 50 social work practitioners in four Canadian cities to gain insight into methods of practice that are culturally sensitive for work with Muslim clients. No hard-and-fast rules are identif...

In February of 1978, the Jewish Board of Guardians (JBG) and the Jewish Family Services (JFS), two large social service agencies belonging to the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies (FJP) in New York City, merged to become the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Service (JBFCS) . The merger was prompted by the retirement of the executive director of JFS, but occurred against the background of...

This paper analyzes how different organizational structures between funding and implementing agencies affect the quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the implied objective functions and trade-offs concerning aid quality, aid quantity, and social agendas of different types of agencies. We analyze three waves of survey...

The tourism industry has experienced notable changes because of the widespread adoption social media. As a result, travel companies have been compelled to give greater importance their online presence and proactively interact with customers via media channels. This study aimed assess concern Romanian agencies for on networks such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok through an analysis metrics. Accor...