For many companies in the Dutch food industry and the agribusiness, it is not only necessary to limit their pollution by means of end-of pipe innovation, but also to bring structural changes to enhance sustainable business development. Major changes in the environmental management system (EMS) ask for a reorientation in the relationships with key influential groups in the (task) environment (st...

Taiwan economy has always been export-oriented, creating tightly-linked industrial chains between cross-straits companies tightly. Understanding the influence of transforming industrial patterns of major economic entities would be critical for long-term cooperative small economic entities (countries or regions) in the periphery. The author of this paper has thus analyzed the influences and ...

Speakers use referring expressions to identify an object in the environment. To generate a referring expression, features of the intended referent have to be selected that distinguish the object from the other potential referents. Current accounts of referring expressions consider a number of factors that influence the choice of features but ignore the influences of the task environment. In par...

Culture influences action not by providing the ultimate values toward which action is oriented, but by shaping a repertoire or "tool kit" of habits, skills, and styles from which people construct "strategies of action." Two models of cultural influence are developed, for settled and unsettled cultural periods. In settled periods, culture independently influences action, but only by providing re...

In this paper we theorize the impact of democratic states on state-oriented challengers. We argue that aspects of states influence the overall mobilization of state-oriented challengers and the forms of their mobilization and collective action. We develop I2 hypotheses about the impact of state political institutions, democratic processes, bureaucracies, and policies on mobilization and provide...

In communication-intensive applications, the information collection policy influences the load balancing decision process and the communication itself, because the collection reduces the bandwidth used by the application. In this paper, we present a study of collection policies used by well-known load balancing system, now in the context of communication-intensive applications and focusing in r...

In recent years, environmental concerns have led to a significant increase in the number and scope of compliance imperatives across all global regulatory environments. The complexity and geographical diversity of these environments has caused considerable problems for organizations, particularly those in high-technology industries. This paper first employs institutional theory to help understan...

In distributed service oriented ICT environments, where broker components control and delegate the work to appropriate services, the value of information that these brokers use in their mechanisms is found to be prone to the dynamics of the infrastructure. In this paper we describe our research on anticipating brokers that make use of predictive information services. We start with a discussion ...

This article investigates how temporal distance influences consumers’ self-control. We demonstrate that self-control is dependent on the content of currently active information in decisions for the future. When indulgence information is currently active, decisions for the future tend to be oriented toward self-control. When selfcontrol information is currently active, decisions for the future t...