Information systems research and practice have been developed under the combination of scientific and economic reasoning that forms the bedrock of western modernity. Alternative ways of perceiving the value of technical innovation, often manifested in the deployment of ICT in the social context of developing countries, are poorly understood and tend to be dismissed as ‘irrational’. In this pape...

Global business, global systems Global economic integration is growing rapidly, although the precise implications of this growth are subject to debate. The acceleration of this integration has been facilitated in part by information and communication technologies which support the creation of organizations that span national and regional cultures. In such organizations the cultural differences ...

Electronic negotiations can involve complex communication and decision processes if complex goods or service are involved. In such cases, an electronic negotiation support system (NSS) extended by a decision support (DS) component can provide valuable help for the users. However, since users have a bounded rationality, such complex processes will never be strictly linear nor rational. Therefore...

The prevailing approach to cyber security continues to be the implementation of controls—technical, formal, and informal. We have seen little departure from a fundamentally preventive strategy. The criminal justice field has called for an increased emphasis on deterrence strategies, specifically Situational Crime Prevention (SCP). This paper presents the results of an exploratory (pilot) study ...

Several studies of two-party negotiations have shown that negotiators more often than not reach inefficient compromises. We analyze the circumstances under which rational agents make inefficient compromises and refrain from improving them. We do this by describing and interpreting various negotiation situations and by developing formal constructs and theorems for determining the character of a ...

When procedural-support systems are to be useful in practice, they should provide support for causal reasoning about evidence. Such support should be both rationally well-founded and natural to the users of such systems. This article studies two possible foundations for such support, logics for defeasible argumentation and logical models of causal-abductive reasoning. A court decision about a c...

This alleged rationality in the use of medicines would require a difficult alignment between distinct rationalities of the various actors that interact in the field of pharmaceutical services: federal, state, and municipal governments; universities and technical courses; health professionals; public and private health services; pharmaceutical industry and providers of supplies; patients and media.