The German Rhineland is home to the world's largest opencast lignite coal mine and human-made hole e the Hambach mine. Over the last seven years, RWE, the mine operator, has faced an increase in militant resistance, culminating in the occupation of the Hambacher Forest and acts of civil disobedience and sabotage. The mine provides a European case study to examine the repressive techniques deplo...

Internet banking has become the new self-service delivery channel that allows banks to provide information and offer services to their customers with more convenience via the web services technology. An understanding of corporate customer acceptance of Internet banking can assist banks to assess the real business value of Internet banking implementation. This study examines four benefits and th...

This article examines how an entrepreneur’s strategic choice influences corporate development leading to the initial public offering. The data come from Korean startups in information technology industry. We consider the dynamic interplay between an entrepreneur’s attributes and government’s institutional support as key factors. An empirical analysis of 615 listed companies shows that an entrep...

This paper presents an overview of the nature of corporate information systems and their applications in health organisations. It emphasises the importance of financial and human resource information in the creation of a corporate data model. The paper summarises the main features of finance and human resource systems as they are used in health organisations. It looks at a series of case studie...

It has been hypothesized that higher tax rates lead to a larger market share for nonprofit hospitals, given their tax exempt status. However, existing cross-sectional studies offer little empirical support for the hypothesis. We reexamine this issue using a panel data set and find that higher state corporate income and local property tax rates lead to a greater market share for nonprofit hospit...

Sponsorship of the arts is growing as a marketing communication method, and companies are using this tool to achieve various business objectives. These include branding, corporate hospitality, and building community relations. The activities that the companies engage in to promote the sponsorships are guided by the objectives they wish to achieve. Additional leveraging is supported by advertisi...

In this paper we describe corporate memory which can support multiple knowledge acquisition, organization and maintenance tools. Memory holds and manages documents and related information and knowledge processed and created by such tools. Tools can work with several types of data such as documents, data in relational database and semantic data. Such diversity of information is needed due to dif...

Focusing only on shareholders’ financial return is not consistent with the concept of sustainable corporate governance. In contrast to financial performance, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a non-financial performance index. Financial reports consist of both financial and non-financial disclosures. These disclosures help investors make decisions. This paper characterizes the interactio...

Intranets or corporate information portals can have tremendous impacts on modern organizations. Today’s intranets are not just sources for publishing and posting internal documents and corporate policies, but instead are sources for knowledge management, work group collaboration, and on-line access to a multitude of other applications that support end-user tasks. Despite these impacts, there is...

In our experience, corporate eLearning initiatives are often being implemented with too little consideration of organizational issues, such as corporate strategy. As a result, potential benefits of eLearning as a tool for creating organizational competencies are usually not realized to a full extent. Thus, the focus of the present paper is on integrating eLearning and strategic knowledge manage...