Reputation and trust-based models have been used extensively in different application domains. These include large online communities such as eBay, Amazon, YouTube and ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks. Recently, the use of the models has gained popularity due to their effectiveness in providing trusted systems or networks. These models focus on online and historical data to determine the rep...

This study analyzed ethical and unethical behaviors in the Chinese public sector, and tested hypotheses concerning the main predictors of such behaviors, as well as other contingent factors related to organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB). We investigated three specific issues. First, we examined whether ethical leadership and ethical environm...

Scholars have debated the issue of how to improve business ethics education so that it impacts managerial practice. We contribute this discussion by proposing a pedagogy we denominate “embo...

BACKGROUND Systematic ethics support in community health services in Norway is in the initial phase. There are few evaluation studies about the significance of ethics reflection on care. The aim of this study was to evaluate systematic ethics reflection in groups in community health (including nursing homes and residency), - from the perspectives of employees participating in the groups, the gr...

Security of distributed systems requires both technical and administrative foundations. Technical foundation is based on cryptographic measures and access control models, and is considerable well understood. Administrative foundation is based on several nontechnical layers added on top of technical communication protocols. Several models for secure interconnection of information systems suggest...

In the latest reform of the National Health Service great emphasis has been placed on the achievement and maintenance of quality. Mechanisms for ensuring this are being set up under the general title of "clinical governance". What is the meaning of this term? The metaphor behind the phrase is of navigation through stormy seas, but who guides the helmsman? Clinical ethics committees could have a...