While it is widely believed that analytics capabilities enable a company to identify valuable insights from big data thereby to improve the effectiveness of decision-making and to gain competitive advantage, little empirical research has been undertaken to investigate the mechanisms through which analytics capabilities improve decision-making effectiveness and organisational competitiveness. Th...

Two experiments examine the role of regulatory resource depletion in the effectiveness of social influence techniques aimed at inducing consumer compliance. They test the two-step hypothesis that a) responding to the initial request stage of an influence technique requires selfcontrol, thereby depleting one's limited resource of self-regulatory energy, and b) a state of regulatory resource depl...

The emergence of Grid computing has accentuated the need of an adaptable, scalable and extensible resource management system. In this paper we introduce GridARM system which renders the boundaries of resource brokerage, virtual organization wide authorization and advanced reservation, and represents a scalable and adaptive Grid resource management as a middleware infrastructure. The GridARM sys...