The economic relevance of IT risks is increasing due to various operational, technical as well as regulatory reasons. Increasing flexibility of business processes and increasing dependability on IT require continuous risk assessment, challenging current methods for risk management. Extending IT risk management by a business process-oriented view is a promising approach for taking the occurring ...

This paper is an analysis of how Norwegians use television and the Internet in their leisure time. It sets up a taxonomy using the degree of engagement in the mediated information on one axis and the degree of sociability on the other. Within this matrix one can examine the similarities and differences between the two media and also differences between the generations. The analysis is based on ...

Although managing information technology (IT) risks is widely regarded as a critical in organizations, stakeholders often question the value provided by IT risk management (ITRM) to an organization. Organizational research suggests the concept of ‘enabling formalization’ to design highly formalized organizational processes. Processes like IT-RM that are designed in an enabling way support organ...

Tourism is a reality that today embodies the specific forms and manifestations of social (economic, political spiritual-enlightenment) life. Regardless modern content interpretation tourism, it science teaches legal basis methods organizing sports tourism. He promotes ideas physical spiritual recreation, encouraging young people to clean environment, strengthening student body, expanding knowle...

IT security issues and outsourcing of business processes are common but largely disjoint themes in the literature; common consideration is rare even though information security risk becomes a shared risk both through IS-based processes at outsourcing partners and potentially tightly-integrated IS systems. This paper explores this lack of an integrated model combining IT risk management view wit...

Increasing numbers of security incidents such as malware or hacker attacks prompt companies to spend billions of dollars on protecting their information systems. In this context IT risk management (ITRM) has become an important organizational function to control internal and external risks associated with IT. Much effort has been put on mitigating IT risks by means of physical, procedural, and ...

The implementation team problem is one of the critical elements lead to ERP project failure. The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between team risk factors and IT governance. The IT governance includes five important domains, that is, IT strategic alignment, IT value delivery, IT resource management, IT risk management, and IT performance management. Our research results ...

Take a strip of paper with ‘once upon a time there’ written on one side and ‘was a story that began’ on the other. Twisting the paper and joining the ends produces John Barth’s story Frame-Tale, which prefixes ‘once upon a time there was a story that began’ to itself. In this paper, I argue that the possibility of understanding Frame-Tale cannot be explained by tacit knowledge of a recursive th...

Trachoma is the commonest infectious cause of blindness. Recurrent episodes of infection with serovars A-C of Chlamydia trachomatis cause conjunctival inflammation in children who go on to develop scarring and blindness as adults. It was estimated that in 2002 at least 1.3 million people were blind from trachoma, and currently 40 million people are thought to have active disease and 8.2 million...

Political culture in Vietnam is the science and art of political activities, an integral part national culture, manifested through attitudes, behaviors, capabilities officials public servants Mekong Delta region. In era innovation, deepening international integration, impact Fourth Industrial Revolution, enhancing for leadership region crucial. It involves recognizing importance society, aiming...