This study investigated the factors influencing SME compliance with regulation on use of IT in South Africa. The researcher argues that these consist of a combination of business, industry, economic, technological, sociological, and psychological factors. The results show that cost of compliance was the main influencing factor and that both rural and urban SMEs make limited effort to develop po...

The implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the healthcare industry has witnessed a tremendous growth in the recent past. These ICTs are often viewed as vehicles that can bridge the digital divide between rural and urban healthcare centres. They hold the promise of bringing resolution to the shortages facing the rural healthcare sector by introducing e-health solu...

This article studies the effect of parental background on the educational attainment of the offspring. In particular, it compares the effects of parental occupation and education and investigates whether the relative importance of these resources have shifted over time. In addition, this article studies, which parent has the strongest effect on the offspring’s education. Using data for the Neth...

One of the most information security controls is the information security policy. This vital direction-giving document is, however, not always easy to develop and the authors thereof battle with questions such as what constitutes a policy. This results in the policy authors turning to existing sources for guidance. One of these sources is the various international information security standards...

The purpose of this study was to examine a broader range of sport constraints perceived by young Koreans in Australia who may need to adjust to changing behavioral expectations due to the socio-cultural transitions. Regardless of gender, in terms of quantitative findings, the most important participation constraints within the seven categories were resources, access, interpersonal, affective, r...

Despite the growing literature on how parenting predicts children’s adjustment to potentially stressful events, little is know about the specific mechanisms through which these effects operate. This review identifies some possible paths of parental influence by specifying ways that parents may influence each step of the coping process—from exposure to the potentially stressful event to event ap...

Among information security controls, the literature gives a central role to information security policies. However, there is a reduced number of empirical studies about the features and components of information security policies. This research aims to contribute to fill this gap. It presents a synthesis of the literature on information security policies content and it characterizes 25 City Cou...

This paper analyzes the strategies employed by households in rural China to allocate educational expenditure to children of dierent endowment, examining whether parents use educational funding to reinforce or compensate for variation in endowment. Employing climatic shocks as an instrument for children's endowment yields results indicating that parental expenditure is preferentially directed to...

Ethnic school segregation exists. In The Netherlands, in other countries of Europe and in other parts of the world. It seems that it is partly caused by the freedom of parents to choose a school for their children. The result is a growing segregation between children with different cultural backgrounds. Proof is found for a white flight in The Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom [1]. Co...