This special issue is being published at a time when emerging technologies (ETs) have become ubiquitous, and many educators in higher education are trialling different ways of using these technologies to respond to varying teaching and learning challenges (see Sharples et al, 2012 for some examples of this). These challenges include concerns about the quality and outcomes of teaching and learni...

In today’s hyper competitive business environment employees are a source of competitive advantage. It is absolutely critical for businesses to hire the right people, with the right skills, right knowledge, right attributes, at the right time, for the right job. The recruitment and selection process has become one of the key processes determining the success of an organization. This paper examin...

The knowledge-based theory of the firm suggests that knowlege is the organizational asset that enables sustainable competitive advantage in hypercompetitive environments. The emphasis on knowledge in today’s organizations is based on the assumption that barriers to the transfer and replication of knowledge endow it with strategic importance. Many organizations are developing information systems...

A new form of scholarship, the scholarship of engagement, is emerging as a distinct set of practices within the general movement toward civic renewal in American higher education. This essay defines the core aspects of the scholarship of engagement and creates a taxonomy of five forms of engaged scholarship. Using a problem-driven, pluralistic approach, this essay concludes that the new forms o...

The development of Information Systems (IS) and software applications increasingly needs to deliver culturally rich and affective experiences for user groups. In this paper, we explore how the collaborative practices across different expert groups can enable this experiential dimension of use to be integrated into the development of a software product. In an empirical study of computer games de...