The local ‘touchdown’ of globalization gives rise to many complex global – local nexuses, and understanding their nature, structure, and consequences presents a major analytical challenge for globalization research. This paper attempts to untangle one global – local nexus by...

Using the compactness in large deviation theory, this note describes a large deviation upper bound by a lower semicontinuous function. It then obtains a characterization for exponential convergence and discusses exponential convergence rates.

This paper explores whether IT and audit professionals have different perceptions of the substantive and symbolic perspectives of information security assurance and the role of security configuration management (SCM) using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Importance...