In process-centric enterprises, business processes (BPs) are at the center of value-creating activities. Governing enterprise BPs requires the ability to control and guide BP behavior. Ensuring compliance of processes to legal regulations and strategy directives becomes a critical requirement. Implementing business process compliance makes means for modeling and enforcing compliance measures ne...

Compliance rules describe regulations, policies and quality constraints business processes must adhere to. Given the large number of rules and their frequency of change, manual compliance checking can become a time-consuming task. Automated compliance checking of process activities and their ordering is an alternative whenever business processes and compliance rules are described in a formal wa...

The study is aimed at assessing the strategic importance of a business processes for achieving sustainable competitive advantage, therefore, in this article the theoretical approach for measuring the strategic contribution of a business process to an enterprise’s business system is presented.  For evaluating of a business process strategic importance the study proposes the system of economic an...

The paper defines a language for specifying authorization and obligation policies of an intelligent agent acting in a changing environment and presents several ASP based algorithms for checking compliance of an event with a policy specified in this language. The language allows representation of defeasible policies and is based on theory of action and change.

This study investigated the factors influencing SME compliance with regulation on use of IT in South Africa. The researcher argues that these consist of a combination of business, industry, economic, technological, sociological, and psychological factors. The results show that cost of compliance was the main influencing factor and that both rural and urban SMEs make limited effort to develop po...

Incidents of computer abuse, proprietary information leaks and other security lapses have been on an increase. Most often, such security lapses are attributed to internal employees in organizations subverting established organizational information security policy (ISP). As employee compliance with ISP is the key to escalating information security breaches, understanding employee motivation for ...

Introduction Primary prevention is the most important and effective way to prevent blood borne pathogens in the health care workers. This study was carried out to evaluate primary prevention in nursing staff of three teaching hospitals of Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Materials and methods This is a cross-sectional study among nursing staff of three teaching hospitals. Data were col...

BACKGROUND Managerial knowledge and skills as well as profound understanding of goals and objectives of management determine the effectiveness and efficiency in all areas of managerial activities. In particular, this applies to the quality of healthcare services, perceived as a compliance between the effects (of medical treatment) and the assumed relevant objectives (defined/desired health cond...

Employees’ non-compliance with information systems (IS) security policies is a key concern for organizations. Previous studies have proposed different explanations for employees’ behavior, such as the use of sanctions and monitoring, fear appeal and training, which represent different paradigms of learning. Previous works do not test the validity of their models or methods across different cult...