Gould and Fernandez (1989) developed a widely used operationalization of brokerage for one-mode networks. The basic idea of brokerage is that the central actor or ‘broker’ benefits from spanning the gap (or structural hole) between two disconnected parties. However, it is not always advantageous to limit the systems studied to only one mode. We develop an operationalization of two-mode brokerag...

INTRODUCTION With the extraordinary financial frauds of recent years, much attention has been given to the idea of ethics. The ethical conduct of executives at Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia, to mention a few, has been questioned by the public, U. S. Congress, and the judicial system. In addition, the SEC reached a settlement of $1.4 billion with the nation’s top investment firms to resolve issu...

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the design of a highly flexible, electronic market place for learning resources called UNIVERSAL Brokerage Platform (UBP). Integrating learning resource related data in a semi-automatic way demands a flexible data model. The main components of an educational brokerage platform are learning resources, agents, intellectual property rights, and delivery s...

Securities firms are the leading institutions that facilitate flow of funds by performing key services both in primary and secondary markets. The assessment efficiency these has become a contemporary major issue due to increasingly intense competition, globalization, innovation capital As part nature business environment for such firms, risk-taking behaviors play role their efficiency. In addit...

An XML brokerage system is a distributed XML database system that comprises of data sources and brokers which, respectively, hold XML documents and document distribution information. Databases can be queried through brokers with no schema-relevant or geographical difference being noticed. However, all existing information brokerage systems view or handle query brokering and access control as tw...

Despite growing interest in social network brokerage, its psychological antecedents have been neglected. One possibility is that brokerage relates to self-monitoring personality orientation. High self-monitors, relative to low self-monitors, in adapting their self-presentations to the demands of different groups, may occupy positions as brokers between disconnected social worlds. For 162 Korean...

In financial service industry, firm's dependency on IT to deliver quality services has increased recent years. This study empirically examines the linkage between service dimensions of which quality depend on IT, and competitive advantage of firms. Consistent with the resource based theory, our result suggests that valuable, rare, and costly to imitate service dimensions make competitive advant...

This paper discusses issues related with learning resources brokerage systems. It introduces a marketbased modeling approach and proposes a virtual market model design of a brokerage system based on multi-agent analysis.