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Determinants of web site information by Spanish city councils
2008
PurposeThe purpose of this research is to analyse the web sites of large Spanish city councils with the objective of assessing the extent of information disseminated on the internet and determining what factors are affecting the observed levels of information disclosure.Design/methodology/approachThe study takes as its reference point the existing literature on the examination of the quality of web sites, in particular the provisions of the Web Quality Model (WQM) and the importance of content as a key variable in determining web site quality. In order to quantify the information on city council web sites, a Disclosure Index has been designed which takes into account the content, navigabili…
Integrated Reputation Analysis at Daimler
2011
Einwiller and Kuhn then describe how Daimler has developed “SCORA,” its integrated system for corporate reputation analysis. To establish the system, Daimler firstly had to determine target variables, influencing factors, and relevant stakeholder groups. The authors explain how their company has identified relevant regions, benchmarks, and the appropriate methodology for its tool. “SCORA” combines media content analysis and stakeholder surveying to fully capture Daimler’s reputation. It additionally reveals relations between stakeholders’ perceptions and the depiction of the car manufacturer in the media. An example of such an analysis concludes this chapter.
Assessment of a Web Comparative Behavioural Model with an Interdisciplinary and Complexity Approach
2016
E-commerce has transformed the way in which consumers and vendors interact, changing how consumers make decisions (Steckel et al., 2005). Economic theory assumes that, despite the easy online access to a myriad of information, consumers will keep searching for information as long as the perceived benefit from doing so is larger than the cost involved (Jepsen, 2007). Despite the vast amount of commerce-related information, consumers value convenience when searching for product and services online. However Oorni (2005) found that when searching for travel packages, consumers were even willing to pay more when the effort to be made was too large. When designing Web sites, marketers typically e…
Behavior Pattern Simulation of Freelance Marketplace
2012
Labour market is expanding rapidly nowadays. Therefore, recruitment processes, namely, the processes of job searching and job offer have become more complicated and there is a strong tendency to automate and integrate it in special freelance marketplaces, i.e. web solutions which seek for the best match for a buyer and seller analyzing the services and items they offer. The aim of the current research is to find possible improvements to the existing system via the implementation of the Multi-Agent-System paradigm. We model the whole marketplace as a continuous process with different agents (freelancers) and propose several behavior models of agents. We analyze different strategies with the …
Human Resource Management Models: Aspects of Knowledge Management and Corporate Social Responsibility
2014
AbstractOver time, changes have affected not only the attitude towards people employed in organizations and the knowledge and intellectual capital, but also social values and responsibility. The aim of the paper is to analyse and assess the aspects of knowledge management and corporate social responsibility and their development in different human resource management (HRM) models. While researching the issue of HRM impact on the organizational performance, the authors have analysed several HRM models that show the relationship between HRM practices, the factors influencing their choice, and the organizational outcomes. The models differ with the unitary approach, which believes that employe…
Uncertainty in information system development: Causes, effects, and coping mechanisms
2020
Information system development (ISD) projects are an ever-growing field of project management (PM) with their unique features, and project failures in ISD are relatively common. In the broader context of PM, uncertainty is a studied, yet mercurial phenomenon. By contrast, uncertainty in ISD projects has received relatively little attention from scholars, and PM literature has not systematically focused on uncertainty in ISD from a viewpoint other than that of project managers. In order to understand uncertainties in ISD projects, we need to first understand the causes behind them, their effects on everyday ISD work, and share coping mechanisms utilized among industry professionals. In the c…
Towards a Wellbeing-driven System Design for Intergenerational Collaborative Innovation: A Literature Review
2020
Researchers have previously utilized the advantages of a design driven by well-being and intergenerational collaboration (IGC) for successful innovation. Unfortunately, scant information exists regarding barrier dimensions and correlated design solutions in the information systems (IS) domain, which can serve as a starting point for a design oriented toward well-being in an IGC system. Therefore, in this study, we applied the positive computing approach to guide our analysis in a systematic literature review and developed a framework oriented toward well-being for a system with a multi-generational team. Our study contributes to the IS community by providing five dimensions of barriers to I…
Digital innovations in rural micro-enterprises
2020
Digitalization gives micro-enterprises and rural areas new possibilities and it can support their competitiveness. In this paper, we have presented one way of supporting the diffusion and adoption of digital innovations in rural micro-enterprises. First, we examined the challenges and digital competence of the micro-enterprises in the rural areas of Central Finland to better understand what they needed. The second step was to develop a workshop concept. Theories of innovation diffusion and adoption were used as a base for these workshops. The last step was to evaluate the developed concept, its effects and challenges. We found that the workshop concept worked well for spreading information,…
Particularities of Knowledge Worker's Motivation Strategies in Romanian Organizations
2013
Abstract The employees are the best competitive advantage that one organization could have, since all the other resources could be imitated. In this context, motivated employees are the key to efficiently keeping up with the market forces and sustain the success of any organization. This paper aims to identify the ways in which knowledge workers from Sibiu area are motivated and which are the modern ideas that could improve the current strategies. The article reviews the relevant literature regarding knowledge workers and suggests some guidelines for identifying the recurrent issues in motivating these precious resources, as well as some directions for further research.
Knowledge management and innovation performance in a high-tech SMEs industry
2011
This article examines how knowledge management (KM) affects innovation performance within biotechnology firms. This is an industry in which small- and medium-sized biotech enterprises live together with the biotech divisions of large pharmaceutical firms. We conceptualize KM as a set of practices and dynamic capabilities, and hypothesize that KM dynamic capabilities act as a mediating variable between KM practices and innovation performance. We use structural equation modelling to test the hypotheses on a data set from the biotechnology industry. The results support our conceptualization and demonstrate its utility in explaining differences in innovation performance across firms. Findings …