Information security has become increasingly important to organizations. Despite the prevalence of technical security measures, individual employees remain the last line – and frequently the weakest link – in corporate defenses. When individuals choose to disregard security policies and procedures, the organization is at risk. How, then, can organizations motivate their employees to follow secu...

This paper presents perceptions of four primary school teachers from two Victorian government primary schools about the barriers and catalyst for effective practices with ICT. Findings of the semi-structured qualitative interviews confirm results of previous studies indicating that access to reliable infrastructure, adequate technical support, and time pressures are still considered to be some ...

Nowadays it can already be seen clearly that in order to increase the effectiveness of computer support in development and production of durable industrial products or artifacts, three problems still need to be solved: (a) integration of aspect models used in artifact development, (b) integration of the aspect models used in process planning and process representations, (c) integration of (a) a...

We in t roduce severa l genera l no t ions concerning the texts and the particularities of text processing on a computer support, in relation to some problems which are specific to M(A)T. And we present the solution we have proposed for the duration of the EUROTRA project.

As a much needed quality in today’s businesses, creativity is an important area of research. Whilst implementing and evaluating computer support for electronic brainstorming, it was noticed that the sheer presence of technology does neither guarantee usage nor success. Contextual factors such as organisational culture and attitudes seem to have an equally important role, and this observation ca...

Total factor productivity is enhanced by e-collaboration’s ability to spread technical change. Economic surplus analysis allows business executives and policy-makers to assess the value of technical change. It can also be extended to assess e-collaboration in order to rationally steer investment opportunities. It is imperative for business executives and policy-makers to empirically assess the ...

Maritime delimitation usually starts with the calculation of an equidistance line, which is often corrected for special circumstances. The correction process aims to produce a line that is “equitable”, a concept open to various interpretations. While the equidistance line is calculated by a technical expert, an equitable line is the result of a negotiation process. Technical support is, in that...

Small and medium-sized establishments (SMEs) account a large proportion of industrial employment and production in almost all countries. Moreover, the recent literature emphasizes the role SMEs play in nurturing entrepreneurship and generating new products and processes. Although SMEs could be a source of new ideas and innovations, there are substantial productivity differences between small an...

Pekka Malo Department of Information and Service Economy, Aalto University School of Business P.O. Box 21210, FI-00076 AALTO, FINLAND Corresponding author, e-mail:[email protected] tel:+358 40 353 8071, fax: +358 9 431 38535 Ankur Sinha Department of Information and Service Economy, Aalto University School of Business P.O. Box 21210, FI-00076 AALTO, FINLAND e-mail: [email protected] tel:+3...

Culture and arts could be very much of hi-tech. Taiwan government has announced that e-learning as the featured policy of Taiwan since 2003. Almost all culture and arts e-learning programs designed by Council for Cultural Affairs and National Palace Museum. Both of them have started e-learning programs and developed a series of e-learning courses in multiple languages, moreover, they keep updat...