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Blockchain adoption: Technological, organisational and environmental considerations
(Implications of the Blockchain, 2018)
Information technology (IT) innovation is rapidly reshaping organisations,
affecting fundamental aspects of their everyday business activities and processes. This
development is accompanied by benefits as well as challenges. ...
Information and Communications Technology and Institutional Design for Climate Change
(2010-10-13)
Information and communications technology (ICT) can be used to gather data on environmental conditions, forecast future events and regulate human behaviour. Although the potential of ICT as a tool for environmental regulation ...
Doubly disadvantaged: Gender, spatially concentrated deprivation and nascent entrepreneurial activity
(Wiley, 2019-12-02)
Drawing on human capital, intersectionality and mixed embeddedness theory, we test hypotheses on the
relationship between gender differences in human capital and gender differences in nascent entrepreneurial activity
across ...
The impact of procedural security countermeasures on employee security behaviour: A qualitative study
(Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2017-09-08)
The growing number of information security breaches in organisations presents a serious risk to the confidentiality of personal and commercially sensitive data. Current research studies indicate that humans are the weakest ...
Investigation of employee security behaviour: A grounded theory approach
(Springer, 2015-05-09)
At a time of rapid business globalisation, it is necessary to
understand employee security behaviour within diverse cultural settings. While
general deterrence theory has been extensively used in Behavioural Informatio ...
The effect of organisational and national culture on employee security behaviour: A qualitative study
(Centre for Security, Communications & Network Research, Plymouth University, 2016-07)
An increasing number of information security breaches in organisations presents a serious
threat to the confidentiality of personal and commercially sensitive data. Recent research
shows that humans are the weakest link ...
A survey of cyberbullying amongst students in Ireland's higher education sector
(International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015-10-26)
Cyberbullying is an extension of traditional bullying where victims are harassed via the internet or mobile phones. This
study investigated the victims’ experiences of cyberbullying including the prevalence, type and ...
Information security behavior: A cross-cultural comparison of Irish and US employees
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-08-09)
This study explores how aspects of perceived national culture affect the information security attitudes and behavior of employees. Data was collected using 19 semi-structured interviews in Ireland and the United States of ...
A comparative examination of healthcare use related to hearing impairment in Europe
(2016)
Impaired health resulting from whatever source presents challenges to individuals and societies.
These challenges can be presented in terms of an economic burden - costs and dis-utilities - that
arise from the experience ...
Regulating intersectional activity: privacy and energy efficiency, laws and technology
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-09-10)
Using a case study, this article explores the extent to which one area of law (privacy and data protection) can intersect with, and be challenged by, proposals by delivery of another goal greater energy efficiency. The ...