a r t i c l e i n f o Business relationships provide means for creating and appropriating superior value in the marketplace. To date, research pertains almost exclusively to the value after relationship creation and sharing among exchange partners. Consequently, the interaction between value creation and value appropriation remains relatively unknown in collaborative relationships. Drawing on e...

Humanity faces numerous problems of common-pool resource appropriation. This class of multi-agent social dilemma includes the problems of ensuring sustainable use of fresh water, common fisheries, grazing pastures, and irrigation systems. Abstract models of common-pool resource appropriation based on non-cooperative game theory predict that self-interested agents will generally fail to find soc...

Many previous papers have lamented the fact that the findings of past GSS research have been inconsistent. This paper develops a new model for interpreting GSS effects on performance (a Fit-Appropriation Model), which argues that GSS performance is affected by two factors. The first is the fit between the task and the GSS structures selected for use (i.e., communication support and information ...

A standard rationale for intellectual property is that by awarding a monopoly to innovators the government increases the amount of social surplus appropriated from invention, thereby improving efficiency. Indeed, if an inventor can appropriate the full surplus from his invention the first best will be obtained. We observe that while full appropriation is sufficient for efficiency, it is not nec...

Two utilitarian defenses, traceable to Bentham and Mill, are commonly offered for patents. It is contended that patents induce innovation, and that patents induce disclosure of innovation. Patents on some or all of the human genome pose particular challenges for these defenses. In the first instance, patents on nucleotide sequences entail the perverse notion of human reproduction qua infringeme...

This paper presents an exploratory study of the appropriation of information systems (AIS) in anaesthesia. Using a grounded theory approach, we identify three key concepts and the basic social process of appropriation to construct a theoretical model that explains why certain systems are chosen, what technologies are considered and how they are appropriated. This study attempts to offer theoret...

There has been interest recently in how mobile devices may be motivating forces in the right contexts: for example, one of the themes for the IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning in 2007 was ‘Affective Factors in Learning with Mobile Devices’ (http://www.mlearningconf.org). The authors have previously proposed six aspects of learning with mobile devices in informal contexts that mi...

Unicode is now a reality, but its complete uses are just coming out. To study the appropriation of a technology requires distinuishing between two levels of usage : that of computer and communication professionals, and that of a larger social spectrum (businesses, academia, cultural institutions, the general public). Technological systems, a notion borrowed from historians on technology, provid...