A critical component that has been missing from the e-governance literature in general is theorising about the design of the information system itself. Since information systems used by governments “encapsulate the structures, routines, norms, and values implicit in the rich contexts within which they are embedded,” [1] they must been seen as a development project shaped by social (key stakehol...

Scholars understand shopping malls as central commercial and social settings. Some argue that malls’ designs attract and seduce consumers, while others contend that mall authorities exclude vulnerable groups and prohibit free expression. Ethnographic studies, by contrast, document how consumers interpret and shape malls as social settings. Drawing on qualitative research in two Santiago, Chile,...

Human behavior, social networks, and the civil infrastructures are closely intertwined. Understanding their co-evolution is critical for designing public policies and decision support for disaster planning. For example, human behaviors and day to day activities of individuals create dense social interactions that are characteristic of modern urban societies. These dense social networks provide ...

The study of drug smuggling has often taken an organizational perspective whereby the structures how is constituted predominate. Building on a growing body scholarship addressing networked complexities this article considers importance distinct infrastructural arrangements. Its primary focus materiality infrastructures, and social, spatial temporal qualities these configurations overlap with li...

C YBER–physical–social systems (CPSS) integrate computational physical elements (seamless integration of computational algorithms and physical components) capable of interacting with, reflecting and influencing each other as well as the complicated system and information exhibited by human’s social behavior. Rapid advances in mobile cloud computing, man–machine, machine–machine communications, ...

Societies in developed countries depend heavily on the safe and secured operation of critical infrastructures such as energy, telecommunication, transportation, traffic and food and water supply, as well as social and medical care systems. Critical infrastructure (CI) can be severely damaged, destroyed or disrupted by technical failure (accidents), human failure (negligence), natural disasters,...

PARTHENOS stands for Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage Eresearch Networking, Optimization and Synergies. It provides a thematic cluster of European Research Infrastructures, integrating initiatives, e-infrastructures and other world-class infrastructures, and builds bridges and provides common solutions to similar problems, between di↵erent, tightly interrelated fields. The p...

Smart, green, and resilient city paradigms have been mainly promoted through top-down and technocratic approaches. However, based on the notion to return to “the right to the city”, emerging community-driven initiatives are providing self-managed infrastructures contributing to urban sustainability transitions. This paper explores the relevance of the behavioral aspects of people-centered appro...

today, identification of necessary infrastructures is very important for creating innovation in organizations. infrastructures were studies separately in previous studies, but the present study investigated the direct and indirect effect of social capital and transformational leadership on innovation performance regarding the mediating role of knowledge management and organizational learning th...