Lately people say more and more about emotional intelligence, about knowledge based economy, about intangible assets and intellectual capital. The permanent improvement of the knowledge supply will be decisive for reaching the success. But only the creation of the networks of knowledge...

Die Personalmanagementsysteme gewinnen mit Internet- und Portallösungen eine für das Verständnis personalrelevanter Aufgabenstellungen einschneidende Erweiterung. Dabei stellt u. a. die vermehrte Integration von Mitarbeitenden in Personalprozesse ein erhebliches Potenzial zur Effizienz- und...

Information security management systems are increasingly applied in a number of sectors of the new, global, interconnected economy. They are used by production and service companies, businesses that provide information technology and telecom services, state administration authorities and local...

Analysé tantôt comme une véritable révolution, tantôt comme un simple « feu de paille », le développement des TIC a eu plusieurs types de conséquences au sein des entreprises. Ces technologies n’ont pas seulement modifié le contenu du travail. Elles ont également été à...

The inductive approach advocated by the Grounded Theory is applied to e-learning training methods as they appear in the experience gained. According to companies the adoption decision is largely dependent on coherence between the technological environment, the quality of the information system...

Stress, disputes, work overload, pressure, and control but also time saving, acknowledgment, accessibility…. are all words that are frequently used when talking about e-mail, and particularly in connection with hierarchical relations. While researchers and practitioners do acknowledge the...

In this paper, we use the work of the philosopher, Charles Taylor, to investigate the role of culture on internationalization decisions. Using parameters related to key constructs such as positive liberty, social ontology, expressivism, civic republicanism and common spaces, we look at how...

Modern information technologies are the engine of globalization. At the same time, the global market influences the way of looking at information security. Information security thus becomes an increasingly important field. The article discuses the results of research on information security...

The editors of <i>Administrative Sciences </i>would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2014:[...]

We develop a game theoretic model to analyze the Nash equilibrium of vaccine decisions in a hospital population with heterogeneous contacts. We use the model in conjunction with person-to-person contact data within a large university hospital. We simulate, using agent-based models, the...