The paper gives various indications of market and technology diversification as well as of global market and technology convergence (rather than specialization) in the context of managerial, legal and economic convergence. The results show that different countries focus on a wider but increasingly similar set of markets for R&D outputs in form of patents, which implies increasing intra-national...

When and why do citizens comply with government policies restrictions during emergencies? We investigate possible answers to this question. propose a mediation model where trust in emergency organizations as well perceived effectiveness mediate the relationships between participation decision making willingness comply. also utilize protective action decision-making perceptions about actions thr...

The security of information is important to protect top secret documents for government and private organisations alike. For this reason, many methods have been developed to enforce security and protect access to documents, computers and networks. Some of these methods include policies and procedures. These policies and procedures are compiled according to an Information Security Architecture (...

OBJECTIVES To develop a simulation model to predict the effects of youth access policies on retail compliance, smoking rates, and smoking attributable deaths. METHODS A model of youth access policies is developed based on empirical research and a theory of perceived risk. The model incorporates substitution into other sources as retail sales are restricted, and is used to project the number o...

This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market, compared with employment in nonleadership, non-high-level managerial positions, unemployment, and non-labour market participation. Our results indicated that a clear...

The goal of this document, within the scope of the practical exam for the GSEC1 SANS2 option 2, is to present a solution for a Company, in order to be able to manage and apply computing security rules on Mainframe and Midrange systems, as well as Facilities Management systems complying with other security rules, specific to customers. With the help of a tool accepting the OS platform Z/OS MVS3,...

Privacy [13] in the digital world is an important problem which is becoming even more pressing as new collaborative applications are developed. The lack of privacy preserving mechanisms is particularly problematic in federated identity management contexts. In such a context, users can seamlessly interact with a variety of federated web services, through the use of single-sign-on mechanisms and ...

To enable cost-effective enforcement of environmental compliance standards, regulatory agencies encourage production firms to voluntarily discover and correct compliance violations. Although such self-regulation activities often bring desired benefits, they create nontrivial challenges. To study this tradeoff, we develop a model that captures the interactions between a regulator and a firm that...

IT organizations and CEO‟s are, and should be, concerned these days about the (lack of) data confidentiality and the usage of „shadow‟ IT systems by employees. Not only does the company risk monetary loss or public embarrassment, the senior management might also risk personal fines or even imprisonment. Several trends reinforce the attention for these subjects, including the fact that an increa...

Data integrity and quality is a very critical issue in many data-intensive decision-making applications. In such applications, decision makers need to be provided with high quality data on which they can rely on with high confidence. A key issue is that obtaining high quality data may be very expensive. We thus need flexible solutions to the problem of data integrity and quality. This paper pro...