Understanding the nature and influence of social relationships is of increasing interest to behavioral economists, and behavioral scientists more generally. In turn, this creates a need for tractable, and reliable, tools for measuring fundamental aspects of social relationships. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' (IOS) Scale, a handy pictorial tool...

Falsification of reports on Japanese catches of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) is known to have occurred at both land whaling stations and in North Pacific factory fleets. Here, we conduct an analysis of pelagic sperm whale catches in the Southern Hemisphere: we compare true Soviet length data from the Yuri Dolgorukiy factory fleet during 1960-1975 to data for the same period reported to...

This paper develops a research model on the roles of transaction cost reduction and explicit coordination in mediating the impacts of inter-organizational information systems (IOS) use on buyer benefits. Empirical tests find that both the transaction costs reduction and explicit coordination are significantly impacted by IOS use. However, it is found that the impacts of IOS use on buyer benefit...

INTRODUCTION Successful research management requirements include; equal teamwork and efficient coordination, in order to increase the impact of the research outcomes and provide added value knowledge. Aim of this paper is to discuss the strategies that have been followed during the RN4CAST study, the largest nursing multi-country research project ever conducted in Europe. The paper focuses on t...

This conceptual paper introduces the logic of embeddedness as a new theoretical angle to the IS planning stream of research. Taking two levels of analysis into account, we examine the impact of socially embedded ties on strategic interorganizational system (IOS) planning. We propose that from a dyad perspective, embedded ties facilitate the planning process, and can significantly increase the n...

A small gain approach for stability analysis of cooperative network-based force reflecting teleoperator systems is presented. The approach is based on a new version of inputto-output stability (IOS) nonlinear small gain theorem that is applicable to stability analysis of large-scale network-based interconnections. Using the small-gain theorem presented, we show that stability of the cooperative...

The adoption of inter-organisational system (IOS) has become important for many organisations because of its many benefits, which can be categorised into operational, managerial and strategic benefits. While some organisations have gained many benefits, some have experienced very limited benefits from IOS adoption. Existing studies have identified a number of factors affecting the achievement o...

The adoption and use of IOS’s by organizations has proved to be difficult and complicated due to a number of reasons. Accordingly, IOS research has been distributed into multiple streams. This paper discusses four widely used theoretical perspectives and the IOS literature related to each perspective. The perspectives are transaction cost economics, incomplete contracts theory, adoption theory ...

This paper explores the environment alteration property of interorganizational systems. Propositions about the relationships between environmental characteristics and IOS use are derived from the Resource Dependence theory. Acknowledgments The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Izak Benbasat, Albert Dexter and Nancy Langton, all of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administrati...