Nudges are increasingly used by governments and organizations to promote behaviors like healthy eating or effective financial planning. Due their cost-effectiveness, such nudges may earn a profit for the nudger. We investigate whether this taints nudges, as suggested recent research showing that altruistic acts can be regarded less favourably if they result in private benefits actor. Across sev...

Abstract: This article analyses the corruption phenomenon in Open Source Software Organizations using a deductive approach. For that purpose, we examine whether there may be corruption motives in such organizations which are not based on the profit motive and give advice how corruption should be dealt with. Our findings demonstrate that although in Open Source Software Organizations there is no...

Technologies for human benefit, such as information systems and information technology, have a key role to play in the realization of quality of life for all citizenry by modern societies. New forms of IS and IT can be developed and used creatively to improve education, health, social equity, environmental conditions, social and environmental sustainability, government and not-for-profit servic...

The Measurement and Control Engineering Center (MCEC), a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC), is a cooperative venture among Oklahoma State University, The University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, and numerous industrial partners. Current research efforts include two projects where opportunities for...

The rise of the anti-sweatshop movement in the 1990s made it clear that absent public pressure, multinational corporations tend to ignore the working conditions of employees in their subcontracted plants. Yet, these same corporations, once their profits became correlated with treatment of their workers, have implemented various policies aimed at promoting and protecting labor rights in their fa...

Purpose: This article evaluates the impact of chain ownership of nursing homes by examining whether facilities demonstrate variation in services, staffing and health outcomes across three structural dimensions—chain ownership, chain and facility size and proprietary status. Design and Methods: We link files of facility inspection reports from 1991 through 1997, excluding government facilities. ...

We present the Social Farm architecture for encouraging user contribution through the profit motive. Our solution leverages the connectivity and trust relationships available in online social networks to create and operate businesses using the programming interface provided by existing online social networks. Social Farm automates the tasks of finding partners, implementing the business workflo...