Introduction. This paper examines the contextual features of information need. An attempt is made to demonstrate that information need can be conceptualized differently, depending on the context in which it appears. Method. Concept analysis of about fifty articles and books thematizing information need in diverse contexts. First, the main contexts and their constituents were identified. Second,...

Location discourse involves the active or passive sharing of location information between individuals. Related applications include mobile friend locators, and location-dependent messaging. Privacy issues pertaining to location disclosure have been considered in research and relevant design guidelines are emerging, however what location information a user actually “needs to know” has received l...

Internationalization creates a need to know how managers in different parts of the world make decisions, and how computerbased information systems (IS) can support decision making. Business leaders from the United States, Japan and China were each found to have a distinctive prevailing decision style that reflects differences in cultural values and the relative needs for achievement, affiliatio...

This article addresses the question of the relevant conceptualization of «altruism» in Russian from the perspective sociological research operationalization. It investigates the spheres of social application of the word «altruism», include Russian equivalent «vzaimopomoshh`» (mutual help). The data for the study comes from Russian National Corpus (Russian). The theoretical framework consists of...

Intense global competition in the tourism industry forces destinations to develop strong, unique and competitive destination brands. This is not an easy task since the sector is extremely fragmented and many images are beyond their control. This working paper explores the concept of destination brand communities which provides a platform for facilitating connectivity, trust building and decisio...

The long-term objective of our project is to discover the fundamental principles underlying the collaborative production, sharing, and management of route information by travelers with visual impairments. The specific research hypothesis is two-fold: 1) people with varied levels of vision loss and orientation and mobility (O&M) skills will be able to form online social networks that collaborati...