The need to ensure reliability of data in information systems has long been recognized. However, recent accounting scandals and the subsequent requirements enacted in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have made data reliability assessment of critical…
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The American Marketing Association has updated its marketing definition and included value for customers and customer relationships in the new definition. Moreover, marketing is defined as one organizational function. Taking mainly service and…
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Innovation in social affairs is a far more complex and demanding process than one might believe. Not only are there many excellent general reasons why an apparently "rational" or absolutely "necessary" innovation either fails to be realized or is…
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The Dolby Digital (Plus) AC-3 audio coding standards are currently the key enabling technologies for high-quality compression and decompression of digital audio signals. The Dolby Digital (Plus) AC-3 audio coding standards have adopted the modified…
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This article extends the discussion of McDonald (2005) concerning the use of shadowing as a research technique for studying actions in organizational contexts. It addresses McDonald's observation that the few studies that refer to this technique do…
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This paper analyses the optimal design of collective credit agreements with joint responsibility. First, we demonstrate that these agreements can potentially induce peer monitoring, reduce the incidence of strategic default, and enhance the lender's…
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Using an original database of rating agencies, this paper gives empirical evidence on the impact of subsidy intensity on the efficiency of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). We find that subsidies have had a positive impact on efficiency, in the…
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We propose an on-demand clustering framework for analyzing the functional requirements in a product line. Our approach is novel in that the objects to be clustered capture the domain's action themes at a primitive level, and the essential attributes…
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The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Richard N. Langlois and Giampaolo Garzarelli on governance in online communities, another by Joel West and Siobhán O'mahony on the role of participation architecture…
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The main goal of this paper is to provide simple ontological support to mobile electronic commerce. The description of an ontology-driven Transaction Monitor (TM) for mobile business applications is considered. The approach is based on the…
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Le covers the subject of the practical application of the principles of open innovation in Dutch industry. Open innovation is considered to be the third stage in evolving systems for innovation management. The results of the study showed that…
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As companies attempt to do "more with less" and increase the speed and number of products they bring to market, many are opening up their business models to a much larger ecosystem of "partners." However, this also means addressing issues…
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There is currently a broad awareness of open innovation and its relevance to corporate R&D. The implications and trends that underpin open innovation are actively discussed in terms of strategic, organizational, behavioral, knowledge, legal and…
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When is open innovation superior to closed innovation? Through a formal simulation model we show that an open approach to innovation allows the firm to discover combinations of product features that would be hard to envision under integration.…
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This article examines the optimal capital structure of a firm that can choose both the amount and maturity of its debt. Bankruptcy is determined endogenously rather than by the imposition of a positive net worth condition or by a cash flow…
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This paper focuses on avoidable moral hazard and offers one explanation for limited insurance markets, for closely held firms, and for seemingly simple as opposed to contingent forms of debt. Agents have random endowments of a consumption good which…
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The widespread use of the product line approach allows companies to realize significant improvements in time-to- market, cost, productivity, and quality. However, a fundamental problem in software product line engineering is that a product line of…
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This paper presents a simple discrete-time model for valuing options. The fundamental economic principles of option pricing by arbitrage methods are particularly clear in this setting. Its development requires only elementary mathematics, yet it…
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Practice is a familiar term in everyday language but it also has a long history of scholarship. What then does it mean to turn towards practice, and how would we know when a practice turn has occurred? To answer these questions, this article…
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Studies of organizational members assimilation information seeking have focused on traditional channels for uncertainty reduction (e.g., face-to-face communication and traditional technologies like employee handbooks) and on the experiences of…
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