The increasing dependency of many businesses with information technology (IT)and the high percentage of the IT investment in all invested capital in businessenvironment ask for more attention to this important driver of business. Thelimitation of capital budget forces the managers to look for more wise investment inIT. There are many cost-cutting techniques in the literature and each of them ha...

the increasing dependency of many businesses with information technology (it)and the high percentage of the it investment in all invested capital in businessenvironment ask for more attention to this important driver of business. thelimitation of capital budget forces the managers to look for more wise investment init. there are many cost-cutting techniques in the literature and each of them ha...

The ability of the emotion gratitude to shape costly prosocial behavior was examined in three studies employing interpersonal emotion inductions and requests for assistance. Study 1 demonstrated that gratitude increases efforts to assist a benefactor evenwhen such efforts are costly (i.e., hedonically negative), and that this increase differs from the effects of a general positive affective sta...

Malta, like many other countries, is faced with the problem of sustaining the coverage and quality of the services offered by its public health system in the face of a rapid rise in health care costs. Within this context, local public health services must undergo the necessary transformation in order to meet future needs, expectations and demands of health care consumers. The aim of this paper ...