I am going to talk today about the ontological argument for the existence of God as formulated by the 11th Century Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Anselm. I want to assure you in advance that I have not chosen this topic because I think the ontological argument is especially persuasive. In fact when I first heard the argument at college from some of my fellow students, I thought they were pulling...

In spite of the fact that enterprise systems have become essential in modern organizations, there is a scarcity of research on this topic in the context of transition economies, defined as countries that are in the process of moving or have recently moved from a centrally planned economic system to a marketdriven system. In this initial study, we conduct a review of 27 journal papers on enterpr...

This paper surveys the evolutionary game theoretic literature on reciprocity in human interactions, dealing both with long-term relationships and with sporadic interactions. Four basic themes, repetition, commitment, assortation, and parochialism, appear repeatedly throughout the literature. Repetition can give rise to the evolution of behavior that exhibits reciprocity-like features but a vast...

Enterprise architectures (EA) support organizations in managing the complexity of their business environment and facilitate the integration of strategy, personnel, business and IT. In Finland, the use of EA has recently been mandated by the newly passed Act on the Direction of Public IT Governance. This has forced public sector authorities to familiarize themselves with the Finnish EA method. A...