The report has benefited greatly from the collaboration of representatives from government agencies and private sector in providing invaluable inputs and comments to the study. We are particularly indebted to the staff of the Bank of Thailand, National Statistical Office, Department of Land Transport, Office of the National Telecommunications Commission, and of the domestic airline companies, c...

Business plays important roles in community functioning. However, disaster research has been disproportionately focused on units of analysis such as families, households and government agencies. This paper synthesises the major findings within the business development research field and the disaster research field. It constructs a framework for evaluating business vulnerability to natural disas...

Government agencies are mainly known as knowledge intensive organizations. In order to exploit effective knowledge sharing, they have to develop practical knowledge sharing implementation approaches. Nevertheless, strong demand and expectation from citizens for efficient service delivery, coupled with global challenges in the knowledge based economy have fuelled the need for government agencies...

The extended invited papers were duly reviewed which resulted in four accepted papers for this special issue. The theme of this special issue of IJEGR is an Overview of the State of the Art and Future Trends in ICT Innovation for Business-to-Government Interaction, which can be further detailed as follows. Government supervision and enforcement authorities, such as customs, tax, police, and foo...

Security compliance has now become a major information systems management problem thanks to government regulations. Organizations are now developing methodologies and tools to assess compliance of Information Systems (IS) security. The research outlined in this paper is part of a longitudinal action research study which aims to help inform and improve security within Whole of Government (WoG). ...

We show that 70% of Chinese listed companies are ultimately controlled by government agencies, thereby indicating that state ownership remains widespread in China’s stock markets. Three questions are considered that are related to government control structures and their impact on firm value: (1) how do government agencies maintain their control of listed companies; (2) what are the impacts of d...

Australian government agencies have a natural desire to provide migrants a wide range of opportunities. Consequently, government online services should be equally available to migrants with a non-English speaking background (NESB). Despite the commendable efforts of governments and local agencies in Australia to provide such services, in reality, many NESB communities are not taking advantage o...

Implementation and adoption of Electronic Government are in early stage in most of the developing economies. Users of such electronic government services include individual citizens, businesses, government agencies and other governments. The rewarding benefits of such implementation effort depends both on governments’ end as well as users’ end. This study amended and used Unified Theory of Acce...

INTRODUCTION The Institute of Medicine and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended that government agencies use nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold and provided at their facilities. In this study, we examine written nutrition standards for foods sold or served in local government buildings or worksites among US municipalities. METHODS We used data from a 2014 ...

Governments around the world are facing increasingly complex problems. In many cases, solving such problems require several government agencies, non-profits and private organizations to work together [1]. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play an important role in facilitating these interorganizational collaborations. Moreover, in some cases, ICT adoption and use is transforming ...