During last decades information technologies based on the computer networks play an important role in various spheres of human activity. Information has become the organizations most precious asset. Organizations have become increasingly dependent on the information since more information is being stored and processed on network-based systems. The widespread use of e-commerce has increased the ...

Technology-assisted learning has become increasingly crucial for academic studies and corporate training. E-learning has potentially become one of the most significant developments in the information systems and technologies. Motivated by such compelling advantages as geographical reach, learner control, and cost effectiveness in course delivery and management, educational institutions and prof...

Technology as a means to meet the needs of an increasingly competitive and demanding market is a reality. This is also true in the retail context. Due to this increases the IT importance that needs to be managed in an increasingly efficient and transparent way to the business areas. As IT becomes more strategic Information Technology management indicators need to be increasingly aligned with bu...

The field of Human Resource Development has initially evolved and executed practice around a behaviorist business approach which has become inadequate and inefficient in addressing the multilevel challenges of today’s complex organizations and meeting the needs of a new workforce that is increasingly becoming diverse. However, this trend is now changing to focus on the learning aspects of both ...

Before the internet, grey literature addressed specific audiences and had limited circulation; it was produced mainly in-house with varying editorial standards. Today grey literature is increasingly available online and new responsibilities arise for its authors and issuing organizations. The challenges of a wider dissemination of grey literature are outlined; in particular, grey literature aut...

Data quality issues have become increasingly critical for information systems applications in organizations of all sizes. This paper presents results from a large-scale Australian survey of Australian CPA members. The research investigates major stakeholders’ opinions on the importance of critical success factors affecting data quality and the actual performance on each of those factors. The re...

Physician recruitment has become increasingly competitive. Organizations that recruit physicians need to establish a systematic recruitment approach that includes determining the organization's recruitment objectives, using various recruiting sources, assessing the skills and "fit" of all candidates, explaining the benefits to candidates early in the process, checking references carefully, and ...

Privacy has become an issue larger than celebrity evasion of the paparazzi. While academic health research has observed strict vigilance in the guardianship of health information databases, new legislation faced by all organizations raises the bar. Short of building a moat to secure precious data, research organizations, such as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), are introdu...

regarding to rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment it will become increasingly important for organizations to measure their performances appropriately. with respect to special characteristics of pharmaceutical industry and lack of reported performance measurement, this study tries to design an integrated performance measurement model for pharmaceutical companies. for gene...

This mini-track focuses on the processes and dynamics relating to the organizational adoption of collaborative systems and technology, and the subsequent diffusion of such systems and technology within adopting organizations. Adoption is the process through which an organization decides to acquire the systems or technology. Diffusion is the process through which the acquired systems and technol...