Online communities have become become a crucial ingredient of e-business. Supporting open social networks builds strong brands and provides lasting value to the consumer. One function of the community is to recommend new products and services. Open social networks tend to be resilient, adaptive, and broad, but simplistic recommender systems can be 'gamed' by members seeking to promote certain p...

Multiculturalism is one of the many factors contributing to the growing diversity found within the workforce comprising today’s organizations. This is particularly true in the ICT workplace. Diversity is often investigated in the context of teams and global organizations seeking to improve knowledge management and/or innovation strategies and practices. Understanding the role that culture plays...

This study discusses ethical issues in research involving human beings and seeks to understand the relationship between qualitative research and the ethical care guidelines for Integrative Community Therapy (ICT) circles based on Resolution 466/12 of the National Health Council of the Ministry of Health of Brazil. This is documentary research, which analyzed Resolution 466/12 and ICT circles se...

Abstract This study builds on the expanding literature interplay of corporate governance and environment behaviour following introduction carbon reporting directives UK Companies Act in 2013. We specifically focus seeking clarity relationship between gender diversity, board independence, size with environmental performance. The examines these relationships under a mandatory nonfinancial (NFR) r...

The goal of the Blog track is to explore the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. It aims to create the required infrastructure to facilitate research into the blogosphere and to study retrieval from blogs and other related applied tasks. The track was introduced in 2006 with a main opinion finding task and an open task, which allowed participants the opportunity to influence the d...

Besides an obvious instrumental motivation, people often engage in information seeking because it is pleasurable. Recent projects by major search engine companies bear this out. For many people, finding information is fun. This paper describes a system that is currently under development whose design is predicated on this idea. The system is both a collaborative information seeking environment ...

People intuitively use search engines to look for health information. However, people take an exploratory search approach to find the information in some scenarios, and current search engines do not support these cases well. This exploratory information seeking behaviour is rarely investigated by researchers in the context of online consumer health information. We report on a qualitative study ...

The theory of Radical Change, which is based on the digital age principles of interactivity, connectivity, and access, is suggested as a lens to reexamine existing research on youth information-seeking behavior in the digital environment. After a brief review of research meta-analyses, which often point to defi cits in youth information-seeking behavior, questions that emerge from this research...

This paper is intended to provide an informal assessment of the theoretical foundations and methodological applications that have been used to study collaborative information seeking. The review of previous studies on collaborative information seeking reveals that most studies have been predominantly descriptive and exploratory in nature, and little has been based on existing conceptual or theo...