This study looked at ten diverse industry groups over an extended time period to examine the relative relationship between aggressive and conservative working capital practices. Results strongly show that the industries had significantly different current asset management policies. Additionally, the relative industry ranking of the aggressive/conservative asset policies exhibited remarkable sta...

Smartphone energy management is a complex challenge. Considerable energy-related variation exists between devices, apps, and users; and while over-allocating energy can strand the user with an empty battery, over-conserving energy can unnecessarily degrade performance. But despite this complexity, current smartphone platforms include ”one-size-fits-all” energy management policies that cannot sa...

Public health policies must address multiple goals and complex community health needs. Recently, management control practices have emerged to provide a broader type of information for evaluating the effectiveness of healthcare policies, and relate activities and processes to multiple strategic outcomes. This study compares the effect of traditional and contemporary management control practices ...

Policy-based management is a flexible approach for the management of complex systems as policies make context-sensitive and automated decisions. For the effective development of policies it is desired to specify policies at a high level of abstraction initially, and to refine them until they are represented in a machine-executable way. We present an approach for the specification and the automa...

Security management is now acknowledged as a key constituent of Information Systems (IS) management. IS security management traditionally relies on the formation and application of security policies. Most of the research in this field address issues regarding the structure and content of security policies; whereas the context within which security policies are conceived and developed remains ra...

Definition Trust management in databases refers to access control models that support the characteristic features of trust management – notably, decentralization of security policies and information used by the policies – and are seamlessly integrated with a database management system.