Abstract This is a paper about the methodology of normative ethics. I claim that much work in ethics can be interpreted as modelling, form inquiry familiar from science, involving idealised representations. begin with anti-theory debate ethics, and note utilises vocabulary scientific theories without recognising role models play science. characterise show these characteristics common establishi...

Scholars have long noted how migration streams, once initiated, obtain a self-feeding character. Studies have connected this phenomenon, called the cumulative causation of migration, to expanding social networks that link migrants in destination to individuals in origin. While extant research has established a positive association between individuals’ ties to prior migrants and their migration ...

This paper investigated how senior management is motivated to commit to information system (IS) security. Research shows senior management participation is critical to successful IS security, but has not explained how senior managers are motivated to participate in IS security. Information systems research shows pressures external to the organization have greater influence on senior managers th...

Market mavens are consumers who are highly involved in the marketplace and represent an important source of marketplace information to other consumers. Because of their influence on other consumers across a wide range of product domains, market mavens are particularly interesting to retailers. Previous studies have clarified the behavioral tendencies of market mavens. The present study focuses ...

With the advent of the participative Web, digital document readers gain in expressiveness. Annotations systems enables them to comment, to rephrase, to criticize, etc. passages from any document. IR approaches that considered document contents only nowadays tend to exploit this participative dimension of the Web. Readers’ activity (annotations and related debates) may notably improve IR recall ...

IS research on social virtual worlds (SVWs) has been contextually biased towards Second Life (SL). While young people constitute the largest SVW user group they do not normally use SL. We investigate the reasons for teenagers’ continuous engagement in Habbo Hotel with a multi-method approach. Grounded in the Uses & Gratifications approach and IT adoption literature, we develop a model examining...

The decision of members in a knowledge-intensive team to withhold their knowledge may threaten the performance of the team. To address the problem of knowledge resource risk in project teams, we maintain that it is important to understand why team members choose to withhold their knowledge, conceptualized as knowledge-withholding intention. In line with the literature on effort withholding, the...

In this research, we examine when and why organizational environments influence how employees respond to moral issues. Past research proposed that social influences in organizations affect employees’ ethical decision making, but did not explain when and why some individuals are affected by the organizational environment and some disregard it. To address this problem, we drew on research on powe...

In this paper, we experimentally approach the question of which aspects of a voting procedure are able to restrict elected candidates’ willingness to use their power in an opportunistic way. For this purpose, we rule out re-election concerns and analyze whether the presence of a vote by itself matters for the exercise of power. We compare two kinds of electoral campaigns: self-descriptions of p...

The need for Australians to increase retirement savings has been widely promoted. Yet, our understanding of the motivations of individuals to save at a higher rate remains sparse. This paper reports the findings of a survey of superannuation fund members and their motivations to contribute more to superannuation and to investment strategy. The paper uses the theory of planned behaviour to focus...