Today’s government and business organizations face many complex problems and challenges. Effective resource sharing, collaboration and coordination among organizations are needed. Collaborating organizations need to share not only data, but also human and organizational knowledge embedded in organizational and inter-organizational policies, regulations, constraints, processes and operating proc...

Wilmington University has a functioning committee and procedures to review and approve all research involving human subjects. All human subjects research conducted by the University is reviewed under the auspices of the Human Subjects Review Committee (HSRC) of the Faculty Senate. Wilmington University is primarily a teaching institution rather than a research institution, therefore, the HSRC p...

The incidence and consequences of medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) demonstrate the importance of established safety procedures and guidelines for the prescribing, dispensing, and administration of medications. As the professional voice of neonatal nurses, the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) recommends that appropriate measures and education be made ava...

Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...

Program funders and managers are increasingly interested in fostering changes in the policies, practices, and procedures of organizations participating in community-based initiatives. But little is known about what factors contribute to the institutionalization of change. In this study, the authors assess whether the organizational members of the Bronx Health REACH Coalition have begun to chang...

The analysis of security incidents and frauds has shown that several vulnerabilities of IT systems are due to loopholes in the policies and procedures adopted by organizations as well as in their structure. Organizations have thus to address security and dependability issues by analyzing their organizational setting. In this paper, we present a methodology to support the deployment of Security ...

Article history: Received 3 November 2015 Received in revised form 21 November 2015 Accepted 21 November 2015 Available online xxxx Accurately assessing organizational information technology (IT) is important for accounting professionals, but also difficult. Both auditors and the professionals from whom they gather data are expected to make nuanced judgments regarding the adequacy and effective...

Insider computer abuse, the problem of intentional computer-related crimes by employees, is a costly problem for firms (Warkentin and Willison, 2009). To counter this threat, IT practitioners and IS researchers assess potential antecedents of and motivations for computer abuse intentions among employees. The theory of organizational justice, the techniques of neutralization, and the role of det...