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Agile software development approaches are becoming mainstream as organizations recognize that their delivery methodology has to be nimble and flexible to accommodate new technologies and evolving customer requirements. However, large organizations depend on a global software delivery model wherein software teams are geographically distributed, and such an environment seems unsuited for Agile to succeed...
The participation inequality phenomenon in online social networks between the niche of super contributors and the crowd of silent users, a.k.a. lurkers, has been witnessed in many domains. Within this view, understanding the role that lurkers take in the network is essential to develop innovative strategies to delurk them, i.e., to engage such users into a more active participation in the social network...
Network integration refers to a process of building links between two networks so that they dissolve into a single unified network. Togetherness measures the proximity of these two networks as they integrate; this notion is fundamental to social networks as it is relevant to important concepts such as trust, coherence and solidarity. In this paper, we study the algorithmic nature of network integration...
Although reports on big data success stories have been accumulating in the media, most organizations dealing with high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets still face challenges. Only a thorough understanding of these challenges puts organizations into a position in which they can make an informed decision for or against big data, and, if the decision is positive, overcome the...
The rapid advancement in web technology has shifted the role of organizational websites from a merely communication tool to a strategic tool for gaining competitive advantage. Organizational website has to be interactive, integrative and intuitive so that its presence is captured by the user. However, the organizational website presence tends to be ignored due to credibility issues and demotivating...
Researchers in mobile commerce has previously examined the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in various contexts, including on user perception and adoption. However, little has been done on understanding the continuity usage factors of mobile commerce services. Our research filled this gap, specifically in the Malaysian airline industry. Interestingly, security and social pressure are no longer a...
Organizational culture is context-specific and it can impact organizational effectiveness in certain mechanism. From Competing Values Framework (CVF) prospective, this study examines the correlations among organizational culture, organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), and organizational effectiveness. Furthermore, this study analyzes the possible mediating role of OCB in the relationship between...
In recent years homeland security is becoming increasingly sensitive to threats posed by the tactics of subversive groups or individuals with malicious intent. Networked groups and organizations leverage various means of communication, ranging from simple phone calls to more sophisticated forms of collaborations. Such data provide a rich collection of evidence from which to infer relationships of...
Current trends in organization restructuring focus on the social relationships among the organizational actors in order to improve the business process. Proposed business process model restructuring approaches adopt either social network discovery or rediscovery techniques. Social network discovery uses semantic information to guide the affiliation process during its analyses, whereas social network...
Growing spontaneous mobility and decreasing affinity to automobile ownership in younger generations demand for an integrated service for intermodal mobility. In areas with lacking coverage of traditional public transportation, extending the coverage by integrating alternative services like car sharing, seems promising. Because of the very different nature, the collaboration between traditional public...
Higher Education environment is moving to a data-oriented philosophy, as it has happened in general in other contexts, transforming the society in general and popularizing the term analytics. The motivation factor is the paradigm shift that is being experimented in the higher education context, with a high increment of the competition at international level and with the irruption of new kinds of teaching,...
This short paper presents the experiences of several Dutch projects in their application of the xAPI standard and different design patterns including the deployment of Learning Record Stores. In this paper we share insights and argue for the formation of an international Special Interest Group on interoperability issues to contribute to the Open Analytics Framework as envisioned by SoLAR and enacted...
Unlike most of the empirical analysis, this paper applies netlogo multi agent simulation software to explore the complex and dynamic relationship between team commitment, knowledge sharing and performance. Combined with related parametric evolution curves, concluding: teams with higher level of commitment have bigger scale and higher total output, average level of output and level of effort decrease...
Radical innovation enterprise's acquiring of innovational resources through network embeddedness helps to improve its innovation performance. Meanwhile, to obtain innovation legitimacy relying on network embeddedness is a critical element to ensure the success of radical innovation and get access to resource under the constraints of institutional environment. Following this principle, literature review...
Young teachers are the main force for the future development of universities and colleges. For individual young teachers, the degree of career satisfaction exerts a direct influence on their working enthusiasm. A questionnaire survey is conducted among 300 young teachers from 8 universities and colleges in China to study the relationship between mentoring relationship and the career satisfaction of...
The phenomenon of crowdsourcing has emerged as a new pattern of digitally mediated collaboration. This novel socio-technical arrangement changes the organization of work as well as its general nature, takes place in information systems (IS) in which humans face many threats to their dignity. For this reason, the importance of ethical issues within this new form of employment arises. Hence, in this...
The widespread adoption of online education is severely challenged by issues of verifiability, reliability, security and credibility. Open Badges exist to address these challenges, but there is no consensus as to what constitutes best practices regarding the implementation of an Open Badge system within an educational context. In this paper we survey the current landscape of Open Badges from educational...
Modern embedded system must efficiently exploit parallelism at thread-and instruction-level to achieve the best performance with the lowest energy consumption possible. While Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoCs) are a commonly used solution, they do not provide an effective environment for software production, as each processing element implements a different Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)....
Recent research shows that although virtual teams have risen in popularity especially in the area of IS development they are typically more conflictual than face-to-face teams. This is because team members are more unlikely to change their initial personal points of view through discussion when interacting with others virtually. If virtual teams are to succeed the issue of increased conflicts should...
Allowing members of organizations to use their personally-owned computing devices as well as applications and services primarily tailored to the consumer market for work-related purposes is a phenomenon commonly referred to as ‘bring your own technology’ or BYOT. Both allowing BYOT and engaging in IT outsourcing arrangements imply higher permeability of organizational boundaries as the IT department...
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