A Practice Note covering trends and developments in the federal government's prosecution of white collar crime. Specifically, this Note examines the government's tactics and strategies in enforcing federal criminal laws, the elements of several criminal statutes frequently used by the government to prosecute corporate crime, what constitutes criminal intent in white collar cases, company and ma...

Small agricultural production enterprises have been under immense economic pressures for many years. Many public policies have been suggested to alleviate the problem but no one has taken a look at the problem from a managerial or operations point of view. In this paper we develop models for supply chain issues facing small enterprises, solve them, and suggest their uses and future considerations.

ELSEWHERE IN THIS issue, you’ll fi nd a selection of technical articles describing recent research on handling software compliance in domains such as business processes, privacy policies, and even human health and safety. I decided to also take a look at how software compliance is dealt with in exceedingly critical environments: how compliance is assured when the consequences of failure can imp...

At one time, JEAB editorial policy was perceived by some to consist mainly of dogmatically enforcing a Skinnerian interpretation of all findings reported in the journal. Partly in response to that undeserved reputation, the journal explicitly defined itself as the place to publish research on the behavior of individual organisms, and not as a place that encourages any particular theoretical ori...

Received: 29 September 2009 Revised: 19 April 2010 2nd Revision: 5 July 2010 3rd Revision: 30 November 2010 Accepted: 8 December 2010 Abstract Throughout the world, sensitive personal information is now protected by regulatory requirements that have translated into significant new compliance oversight responsibilities for IT managers who have a legal mandate to ensure that individual employees ...