Governance as an Interplay between Corruption and Polity: Conceptualizing from a National Perspective

Conceptualizing Enterprise Systems from an Integrationist Perspective

A purported feature of Enterprise Systems (ES) is that they are “integrated”; meaning that they in some sense bring parts into a unified whole. However, it is far from clear what is integrated into what, or how integration is achieved in practice. Moreover, the very concepts of integration and other related, fundamental concepts such as ‘organization’, ‘coordination’ and ‘knowledge’ are abstrus...

Governance, Corruption, and Public Finance: An Overview

Conceptualizing Security Governance

This article examines the changing transatlantic security architecture since the end of the Cold War. It argues that the absence of a unifying military threat and the subsequent broadening of the notion of security from states to societies has led to the increasing differentiation of security policy arrangements since the beginning of the 1990s. Not only have international institutions prolifer...

Cross-border Governance: Inventing Regions in a Trans-national Multi-level Polity

From an esoteric subject of international relations and voluntarism-based initiatives , cross-border governance has turned in the last decade into a key expression of regionalism and of dynamics of change of territorial relations in Europe. Overcoming and blurring borders lies at the core of discourses on European integration aimed at erasing tariff and non-tariff barriers from the geography of...

Conceptualizing design affordances from a cognitive perspective

iv CHAPTER 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 Dissertation Organization 3 References 4 CHAPTER 2. CONCEPTUALIZING AFFORDANCES FROM A COGNITIVE VIEWPOINT 5 Abstract 5 Introduction 5 Overview of Article 5 Why Consider Affordances? 6 The Original Meaning of Affordance 7 Different Theoretical Views of Affordance 9 Our Perspective and Motivation 10 A Cognitive System Perspective 14 Working Memory 15 The Impa...