Purpose The paper takes an institutional approach to the analysis of organisational-level challenges of IS innovation in public organisations. It seeks to answer the question: how can the challenges of IS innovation in public organisations, presented by the interactions between IT and public bureaucracy, be explained and addressed? Design/methodology/approach Empirical study approached with an ...

The activities of the life sciences are essential to provide solutions for the future, for both individuals and society. Society has demanded growing accountability from the scientific community as implications of life science research rise in influence and there are concerns about the credibility, integrity and motives of science. While the scientific community has responded to concerns about ...

Experience of long term radioactive contamination of the environment, especially in the territories the most affected by the Chernobyl accident, have shown that the omnipresence of radioactivity in the daily life was deeply altering the relationships of the individuals towards their environment, perceived as globally deteriorated, and to the others. Inhabitants of contaminated territories exper...

In current systems, application developers must provide substantial security-critical code—including code to handle authentication—in their applications. The result is that application flaws often undermine system security. We are building Ethos, an Operating System (OS) that leverages the kernel’s complete mediation property to guarantee more security protections—including network encryption a...

Surgical innovation strives to address the perceived shortcomings and potential pitfalls associated with traditional therapeutic techniques. New devices are often recommended to patients on the basis of incomplete clinical datasets that highlight specifi c short-term gains over standard treatment but may not confi rm longterm benefi t. Enthusiasm for new technology in surgery should be balanced...

this paper deals with the latter concern, the nature of the ethos or source credibility construct and its measurement. In the course of our discussion we suggest that historical conceptualizations of the ethos or source credibility construct have not been challenged seriously and that adequate measures of the construct are available. Furthermore, continued scholarly attention to the construct a...

This study examines the individual and workplace factors related to depression and stress in a large privately owned enterprise in China. The cross-sectional study design involved 13 privately owned retail enterprises in China. A self-report survey was administered to 4,847 employees aged 18-54 recruited through the management boards of the 13 enterprises. A chi-square test was used to compare ...