Philip Hughes has been the senior research officer of the Christian Research Association since 1985. He is also an honorary research fellow in the School of Psychology and Social Sciences at Edith Cowan University and with the Melbourne College of Divinity. He has written many books and articles on Australian culture and Church life. He was ordained in 1977 and has had experience in local Churc...

Based on group creativity framework, our research investigates how corporate social responsibility (CSR) promotes innovation of firms by revealing sequential mediating mechanisms of employee’s meaningfulness of work and intrinsic motivation. By applying a multi-level approach, this study examines the internal processes of micro-level variables between two macro-level variables (i.e., CSR and in...

In this research-in-progress paper, we present a preliminary model of how reference users shape enterprise systems (ES) acquisition and development based on the case study of Xizi Holdings, one of the largest private enterprises in China. Our model draws on the theoretical lens of the social shaping of technology in the context of streamlining complex packaged ES adoption. The model is built on...

The payment functions of central banks vary among nations. Some central banks provide only limited payment services, such as issuing and redeeming currency and facilitating settlement among members of payments systems by transferring reserve balances.1 In the United States, the Federal Reserve has been a provider of payment services since the early 1900s. By 1918, the Fed had acquired a large s...

Studying satisfaction is one of the main goals in education business no mater in traditional learning environment or in the digital environment. The Social networking service, called SNS, offers a simple way to build social networks among a set of people who share interests, activities, backgrounds or life discussions. Until now, many well-popular SNS tool are easy to use for people no matter t...

We address the issue of manipulating games through communication. In the specific setting we consider (a variation of Boolean games), we assume there is some set of environment variables, the values of which are not directly accessible to players; the players have their own beliefs about these variables, and make decisions about what actions to perform based on these beliefs. The communication ...

Geospatially-oriented social media communications have emerged as a common information resource to support crisis management. Our research compares the capabilities of two popular systems used to collect and visualize such information Project Epic’s Tweak the Tweet (TtT) and Ushahidi. Our research uses geospatially-oriented social media gathered by both projects during recent disasters to compa...