As physical and information security boundaries have become increasingly blurry many organizations are experiencing challenges with how to effectively and efficiently manage security within the corporate. There is no current standard or best practice offered by the security community regarding convergence; however many organizations such as the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management (...

Censorship in social media has been well studied and provides insight into how governments stifle freedom of expression online. Comparatively less (or no) attention has been paid to detecting (self) censorship in traditional media (e.g., news) using social media as a bellweather. We present a novel unsupervised approach that views social media as a sensor to detect censorship in news media wher...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F23 H25 Keywords: Corporate taxation International profit shifting Real options FDI The relation between taxation states and foreign direct investment (FDI) has been studied from several perspectives and with states at different levels of development. Most previous studies, however, have only considered the impact of tax level on FDI volume. This paper ...

Current data warehouse and OLAP technologies are applied to analyze the structured data that companies store in databases. The context that helps to understand data over time is usually described separately in text-rich documents. This paper proposes to integrate the traditional corporate data warehouse with a document warehouse, resulting in a contextualized warehouse. Thus, the user first sel...

In this paper, we investigate the notions of belonging and community in 3D virtual worlds, and identify the ways in which “belonging” and “not belonging” are constructed and perceived, especially in relation to so-called employee avatars (i.e., avatars that are representative of those who appear in their capacity of corporate employees). We explore the dimension of stigma and discuss the utilit...

The main thrust of this study is to assess how the systematic biases found in mass media journalism affect writing history textbooks. There has been little attention paid dissemination select news information regarding recent past, particularly from 1990s through War on Terror, influences ways which US taught schools. This employs a critical-historical lens with ecology framework compare Projec...

This paper describes a robust speech documents retrieval system that uses voice input keywords. To solve the inevitable problems which arise when the input to the system is speech, i.e. misrecognition, a novel method was developed, where, before the retrieval processing, unproductive keyword candidates are discarded by a grouping processing using the similarity between words and the recognition...