Received: 24 November 2004 Revised: 6 March 2005 2nd Revision: 22 April 2005 Accepted: 5 May 2005 Abstract Enterprise systems are gaining interest from both practitioners and researchers because of their potential linkages to organizational and individual user’s productivity. Information systems (IS) researchers have been investigating the implementation and adoption issues of enterprise system...

The research here presented focuses upon the informal, social, and cultural side of managerial coordination and control as manifested in clinical e-health systems. Specifically, the research seeks to analyze and determine the role specific dimensions of organizational culture may have upon effective managerial coordination and control in clinical e-health systems.

This article explores the functions of community, an important institution of social control in China. The specific control functions are grounded in a unique macro-control system, which is totally different from that typical of Western Countries. Policing strategies depends strongly on mass participation. Informal social control is particularly significant as it appears to play a more importan...

This paper studies management control design of supplier relationships in manufacturing, a supply chain phase currently under-explored. Compared to supplier relations during procurement and R&D, which research found to be governed by a combination of formal and informal controls, supplier relations in manufacturing are more formal, so that they could be governed by more formal and less informal...

General definitions as well as rules of reasoning regarding control code production, distribution, deployment, and usage are described. The role of testing, trust, confidence and risk analysis is considered. A rationale for control code testing is sought and found, for the case of safety critical embedded control code.

The topic of this scientific work is placed in the domain social anomie. effects action informal forms anomie cause entropy and indicate permanent topicality topic. Social destroys processes, devalues institutions devastates fundamental values on which community rests, so significance research unquestionable. Scientific justification contained need to shed light phenomena processes from patholo...

BACKGROUND Caring for people with dementia at home requires a significant amount of time, organization, and commitment. Therefore, informal caregivers, mainly relatives, of people with dementia often feel a high burden. Although on-site support groups are known to have positive effects on the subjective well-being (SWB) and perceived social support of informal caregivers, there are cases in whi...

Considering corruption as one of the chronic harms of the administrative system,and the social factor affecting economic growth, the present study sought toexplain, for the first time, the differences in the perceived levels of corruptionamong 16 Southwest Asian countries, relying on the sociological “newinstitutionalism” theory in analyzing organizations, describing cau...

Background: The informal caregivers of the patients with COVID-19, who are in direct contact with patients and Coronavirus, experience many psychological issues and are prone to illness anxiety disorder. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of virtual training of Benson relaxation technique on illness anxiety disorder in the informal caregivers of the patie...

formation and expantion of informal settlements are concequences of urban growth and zanjan isn't an exception to this regulation. najaf abad informal settlement has been formed and expanded on the bases of uncontrolled and exceeding rural immigration. this study aims to investigate role of social security in empowerment as well as elimination district problems of zanjan najaf abad. in the empo...