This paper simultaneously examines how the design of management control systems and top management team composition help organizations to implement environmental sustainability policies successfully. It also analyzes the effect of those policies on both short-term and long-term performance. A questionnaire was sent to every member of top management teams in 231 public hospitals in Spain. It obt...

One of the security issues in data outsourcing is the enforcement of the data owner’s access control policies. This includes some challenges. The first challenge is preserving confidentiality of data and policies. One of the existing solutions is encrypting data before outsourcing which brings new challenges; namely, the number of keys required to access authorized resources, efficient policy u...

Fishing capacity management policies have been traditionally implemented at national level with national targets for capacity reduction. More recently, capacity management policies have increasingly targeted specific fisheries. French fisheries spatially vary along the French coastline and are associated to specific regions. Capacity management policies, however, ignore the capital mobility ass...

Humans in meeting the needs of their lives need natural resources, form land, water and air, other resources that are included renewable non-renewable resources. However, it must be realized humans have limitations many ways, namely regarding availability quantity quality. Certain also according to space time. The government take alternative steps determine potential problems use purpose this s...

Workload management for operational business intelligence (BI) databases is difficult. Queries vary widely in length and objectives. Resource contention is difficult to predict and to control as dynamically-arriving, long, analyst queries compete for resources with ongoing online-transaction processing (OLTP) queries and batch report queries. Currently, administrators struggle to choose workloa...

Policy-based management is a flexible approach for the management of complex systems as policies make context-sensitive and automated decisions. For the effective development of policies it is desired to specify policies at a high level of abstraction initially, and to refine them until they are represented in a machine-executable way. We present an approach that uses models to specify event-co...