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Models of E-Democracy
2006
Pulished article in Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 17 (1), 818-840. Also available from the publisher: http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol17/iss1/37/ Several theories of E-Democracy have been presented, and implementations of and experiments in E-Democracy emerged. However, existing literature on the subject appears rather non-comprehensive, lacking an integrated basis, for gathering knowledge in the future. After an analysis of theories of E-Democracy versus implementations reported in related literature, we address the need for a model generally absent from contemporary theoretical literature: the Partisan model of E-Democracy. We aim to simplify the current "jung…
Website localization towards the Norwegian market : an analysis of American firm´s websites
2011
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2011 - Masteroppgave i informasjonssystemer- Universitetet i Agder 2011 This study is the first involving international firms and the localization of firms' websites for a Norwegian audience. In order to give the reader a better understanding of the topic, we first conducted a literature review where we identified five key themes related to website localization: standardization versus localization, localization website design characteristics, website localization measurement and cultural depictions in websites. The research method used in this thesis is a quantitative analysis of data collected via the content analysis of web…
Motivations and usage patterns of social networking sites : exploring cultural differences between United States & Sri Lanka
2013
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2013 Cybernetics has experienced a major breakthrough and led to the utilization of computers at nearly all parts of daily life. The new technology created online social networking. Even though Social Networking Sites (SNS) are a global phenomenon, it is constrained by local conditions such as culture. Thus, the purpose of the study is to incorporate cultural dimensions to the motivations and usage patterns of the SNS considering SNS as a collection of features (chat, status updates, groups etc...). Present study replicates a study made in the United States in Sri Lanka, and identified differences, trace them to cultural reas…
The online marketing of religion : online marketing of religion: analysing social media use by online christian evangelists
2011
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2011 Inspired by a growing interest among scholars and practitioners concerning the promise and reality of the Internet’s ability to transform existing practices, the current study examines how evangelists actually use the Internet in their evangelism efforts. Theoretically, online evangelism is an emerging new approach to traditional evangelism. Underlying its emergence are expectations and initial evidence concerning Internet’s ability to transform certain aspects of organizations’ forms of promotions (for full detail see chapter 3). More specifically, this study engages in an abductive theory development effort with the go…
Role of advertisement in retaining customers of mobile telecommunication companies in Pakistan
2010
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2010 The telecommunications industry is a high velocity industry in the current business context. With this boom, even the competition in the developing countries like Pakistan the demand for mobile usage has significantly increased in the last few years. This emerging trend in demand and high profitable industry, leads to more and more mobile service providers who are investing for infrastructure facilities to provide their service more successfully. The network providers face a greater challenge in retaining their customers because the customers have many options and they may switch their brand to another for seeking better…
IT som konkurransefortrinn i norske havner : ISPS- en driver til bedre effektivisering?
2009
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2009 Målet med denne studien var å se på hvordan IT kan være med på å effektivisere logistikk prosesser og bidra til konkurransemessige fortrinn for norske havner etter at ISPS-koden ble innført. Det teoretiske rammeverket som er benyttet i denne studien er ressursbasert teori og teori om strategisk nødvendighet. Hensikten med teorien er å vurdere hvorvidt ressursene eller kombinasjoner av ressurser kan bidra til effektivisering og konkurransemessig fortrinn for selskapet. Den ressursbaserte teorien klassifiserer ressursene og vurderer de ut i fra variablene verdifull, sjelden, ikke kopierbar og organiserbar. Ressurser som op…
Managing Benefits in the Public Sector. Surveying Expectations and Outcomes in Norwegian Government Agencies
2008
Published version of a chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5184, 98-110. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85204-9_9 Government agencies currently experience increasing pressure to document benefits from spending on eGovernment efforts. Hence, structured methods for benefits management (BM) are being developed. However, hardly any studies have investigated how such approaches are used and experienced. This study addresses this practice-research gap by reporting a study of a project involving 30 Norwegian government agencies using a common BM approach.A questionnaire was answered by project managers. Results show that that some 80 % of the ma…
El virus del Papiloma Humano en cavidad oral y orofaríngea en estudiantes universitarios de 18 a 25 años en Valencia
2017
INTRODUCCIÓN Y JUSTIFICACIÓN DEL ESTUDIO El VPH es una de las infecciones virales más extendidas en la población. Estudios epidemiológicos revelan que la infección oral por VPH juega un papel importante en el desarrollo de enfermedades precancerosas o cánceres de la cavidad oral, en particular en el cáncer de células escamosas orales.1 Aunque se han descrito más de 140 genotipos de VPH, no todos ellos tienen el mismo riesgo de provocar lesiones pre-malignas o cánceres. El genotipo VPH-16 está implicado en la mayoría de estas lesiones, aunque existen otros genotipos carcinogénico. Es una infección indetectable ya que, suele revertir de forma espontánea sin derivar en lesiones premalignas o m…
Challenges in Information Systems Procurement in the Norwegian Public Sector
2011
Published version of a chapter in the book Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6846, 404-417. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22878-0_34 Public procurement of information systems (IS) and IS services provides several challenges to the stakeholders involved in the procurement processes. This paper reports initial results from a Delphi study, which involved 46 experienced procurement managers, chief information officers, and vendor representatives in the Norwegian public sector. The participants identified altogether 98 challenges related to IS procurement, divided further into 13 categories: requirements specification, change management, cooperation a…
Familiarity with digital twin totality: Exploring the relation and perception of affordances through a Heideggerian perspective
2022
The concept of affordances has become central in information systems literature. However, existing perspectives fall short in providing details on the relational aspect of affordances, which can influence actors' perception of them. To increase granularity and specificity in this regard, researchers have suggested that it be supplemented with other concepts or theories. In this article, we argue that the Heideggerian concepts of ‘familiarity’ and ‘referential totality’ are well suited for increasing our understanding of the relational aspects of affordances in information systems research. To explore this idea, we conducted a case study of a project concerning the development of a digital t…