Our objective was to examine factors associated with compliance and support for a smoke-free campus before and after a 1995 campus-wide smoking ban for everyone, including teachers and visitors, in California. Adolescent (12-17 years) data from the 1993, 1996, 1999 and 2002 (N approximately 6000 each year) California Tobacco Surveys (population-based telephone surveys) were analyzed. Trends in ...

The United States has lost about half its wetland acreage since European settlement, and the effectiveness of current wetland mitigation policies is often questioned. In most states, federal wetland laws are overseen by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but Michigan administers these laws through the state's Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). Our research provides insight into the effe...

Healthcare staff in the National Health Service are expected to comply with and keep up to date with numerous policies covering every aspect of their daily work. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has guidelines on a huge number of clinical issues ranging from how to treat breast cancer to how to insert a central venous catheter. 2 Other guidelines are generated by...

Internet security risks, the leading security threats confronting today’s organizations, often result from employees’ non-compliance with the internet use policy (IUP). Extant studies on compliance with security policies have largely ignored the impact of intrinsic motivation on employees’ compliance intention. This paper proposes a theoretical model that integrates an intrinsic self-regulatory...

Policies and government regulations impose restrictions on information practices in healthcare and finance. These restrictions govern the use and disclosure of information that spans organizations and their business practices. To comply with policies and the law, organizations must demonstrate that they have verifiable procedures in-place to implement these restrictions. To this end, we present...

It has been argued that organizational punishment serves as a deterrent to unwanted employee behavior but there is no clear consensus on the influence of punitive actions on employees’ behavior to comply with information security policies. This study proposes a model that explains the influence of organizational punishment on employees’ cognitive beliefs and their intention to comply with infor...

As information is increasingly managed electronically, policies and government regulations intended to protect personal privacy are increasing the requirements complexity of software systems. These regulations and policies are frequently developed by lawyers and domain experts – not engineers – resulting in complex and ambiguous legal language. To ensure software complies with the law, software...

The model proposed in this paper aims at identifying the best allocation of a limited quantity of product to a group of retailers supplied by a unique supplier, considering the variability of the demands faced on the market. The proposed approach aims at reducing the problem of demand inflation, inherent to many rationing policies, by considering the mean and the standard deviation of the deman...

The calculation of customer value without regard to marketing policy is problematic because the value of managerial flexibility and the impact of consumer learning are neglected. This article develops a structural dynamic programming model of consumer demand that includes marketing variables and consumer expectations of promotions. The author uses the estimated parameters to conduct policy expe...