When investigating the use of information systems within organizations, researchers inevitably make decisions relating to the grouping and classification, or “stratification,” of IT users. Most commonly, users are stratified along functional boundaries or by their membership in various communities of practice. It is important to note, however, that any such method of social stratification neces...

If several distributed and disparate computer resources exist, many of which have been created for different and diverse reasons, and several large scale computing challenges also exist with similar diversity in their backgrounds, then one problem which arises in trying to assemble enough of these resources to address such challenges is the need to align and accommodate the different motivation...

When I was appointed Director of California PATH in summer 2003, it was with the specific mandate to help re-structure the research center, to align more closely with the objectives of our main sponsor, Caltrans. The re-organized PATH includes four research programs: Traffic Operations, Transit Operations, Traffic Safety and Policy. The reason for this restructuring was to provide a more direct...

One of the main issues with the activities related to modeling and improving business processes is the complexity of the current organizational structures. In many cases, an enterprise could improve its performance if it could align its processes to a specific architectural style, as this would facilitate the analysis tasks and the subsequent design of information systems. However, currently th...

Educational institutions increasingly adopt the students-as-customers concept to satisfy their students. Understanding students’ perspectives on the use of this business concept in educational institutions is necessary for the institutions to effectively align these perspectives with their management practice. The study investigates whether students in technology and business disciplines have s...

This paper considers an international sample of venture capital and private equity funds to assess the role of law, corruption and culture in setting fund manager fees in terms of their fixed management fees, carried interest performance fees, clawbacks of fees and cash versus share distributions of fees. The data highlight a role of legal conditions in shaping fees paid to fund managers. In co...

Refactoring tools can improve the speed and accuracy with which we create and maintain software — but only if they are used. In practice, tools are not used as much as they could be; this seems to be because they do not align with the refactoring strategy preferred by the majority of programmers: floss refactoring. We propose five principles that characterize successful floss refactoring tools ...

Organisations are increasingly being scrutinised and pressured by Government regulators and legitimate environmental watchdogs to align their business with environmental sustainability practices. Specifically, the advent of agreements like the Kyoto Protocol has meant that organisations are now motivated more than ever to monitor their carbon emissions. This focus of carbon emissions has now mo...

Knowledge has become to be considered as valuable strategic assets that can provide proprietary competitive advantages. It is more important for companies to distinguish themselves through knowledge management strategies. Without a constant creation of knowledge, a business is condemned to poor performance. However, it is still unclear how these strategies affect knowledge creation. Knowledge m...

Besides saving energy, using it at the right time (i.e. when there is a supply surplus, and the power is produced by sustainable power sources such as hydroelectricity or wind) is an important possibility to achieve positive effects for the environment. To enable the user to align their behavior with the dynamics of the energy generation they need to be informed about the current status of powe...