Safety, health and environmental (SHE) management is becoming a priority as construction companies (i.e., contractors) strive to reduce accidents negative impacts, conform regulatory requirements, sustain their competitiveness. Consequently, firms are expected adopt implement innovative SHE systems mitigate risks effectively efficiently. For do this, they need have the adequate capability in re...

We view software construction as a social process embedded within organisational and cultural structures. To increase our understanding of the process of software construction we attempt to model not just individuals or teams but organisational wide processes. How can we begin to model such complex dynamic entitles composed of many interacting individuals? We outline our initial steps towards s...

In an organisational setting, such as an online marketplace, the organisation monitors agent interactions, and enforces norms by means of sanctions. This paper provides an operational semantics for agent interactions within such a setting, distinguishing constitutive norms for monitoring and sanction rules for enforcement of norms. Our contribution emphasizes a more detailed exploration of the ...

We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in absence of incentives. We set out a theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do in fact induce physicians to deviate from a standard guided only by patient i...

An empirical study concerning management accounting information on corporate pricing decisions is presented. The study reveals insufficient information quality in organizations. The lack of information quality concerns the relevance of information available to the decision-making sales departments. In particular, too much irrelevant information is supplied by the controlling departments, as wel...

1. The Significance of Group Trustworthiness We value trustworthiness where we find it, in friends, colleagues, and strangers. This is because it is easier to cooperate with trustworthy individuals than with untrustworthy ones, but also because trustworthiness is appreciated for its own sake. Conversely, we resent untrustworthiness when we encounter it, and try to minimise interaction with untr...

A major purpose of an electronic meeting system (EMS) is recording data, which allows the production of an immediate and unbiased report. But reports produced by commercial EMSs have some weaknesses that make difficult the organisational integration of meeting results. In order to contribute to the solution of this problem, it was developed a new system supported in the concept of communication...

Self-organising multi-agent systems provide a suitable paradigm for developing autonomic computing systems that manage themselves. Towards this goal, we demonstrate a robust, decentralised approach for structural adaptation in explicitly modelled problem solving agent organisations. Based on self-organisation principles, our method enables the agents to modify their structural relations to achi...