In a recent editorial in Biostatistics, Peng (2009) introduced a system for making data and computer code from papers in the journal publicly available so that other researchers can reproduce the statistical analyses in the paper. The editors explain in a short accompanying note (Diggle and Zeger, 2009) that ‘we wish to encourage the practice of making research published in the journal reproduc...

Recent literature suggests that microcomputers will be quickly adopted by organizations, often without forethought as to the apprvpriate policies that should be followed in such adoption. An exploratory study of five medium-sized city governments reveals that, at least in some kinds of organizations, carefully thought-through policies for adoption of personal computers are being followed. Compa...

This study compares changes in attitudes of students towards organizational security policies and procedures at various institutions that have implemented information security policy training as part of the orientation and ongoing training for students. The results indicate that those institutions that provide multiple venues to discuss security policies and procedures during the student career...

have devoted increased scholarly attention to processes of institutionalization, or mechanisms by which organizational structures, policies, and practices acquire social legitimacy and ultimately become taken-for-granted as normatively appropriate in a population. From a neoinstitutional perspective, organizational structures and practices acquire legitimacy with an organization’s stakeholders ...

a salient organizational phenomenon in the Chinese bureaucracy is collusion among local governments in response to policies and directives from higher authorities; local governments often form alliances to compromise the original intention behind state policies. There are thus significant and persistent deviations and goal displacement in policy implementation. This article develops an organiza...

Public servants are expected to be good stewards of resources, including the energy and environmental resources consumed in a public organization’s day-to-day operations. Many government organizations have enacted policies to mitigate the environmental impact of their operations. Even in the absence of formal policies, however, individual public employees might engage in a number of discretiona...

information disclosure and quality of their presentation are affected by a lot of environmental and organizational factors that organizational culture is one of the most important. responsible organization culture creates a dynamic information environment and helps the quality of information disclosure. accordingly, the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of organizational culture on t...

In certain critical cases the data flow between business departments in banking organizations has to respect security policies known as Chinese Wall or Bell–La Padula. We show that these policies can be represented by formal requirements and constraints in first-order logic. By additionally providing a formal model for the flow of data between business departments we demonstrate how security po...

IT consumerization or bring-your-own-device (BYOD) behavior, i.e., the use of private devices within organizational boundaries, is steadily increasing. Despite potential benefits, organizations are struggling to keep up with this development since a variety of risks, uncertainties, and potential costs are related to the use of private devices within the enterprise. Potential negative consequenc...