Overall, IS research provides powerful tools that allow understanding individual acceptance and use of systems. However, researchers are increasingly concerned that it provided very little indications about how user adaptive strategies to IT influence IT adoption and success. Drawing on the...

In October 2017, the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) set up a group whose objective was to examine cyber security vulnerabilities within the financial sector, and their potential impact on financial stability and the real economy. In its first year, the European Systemic Cyber Group (ESCG)...

The knowledge-based economy, along with the impact of information society technologies, presents the service organizations and their customers with many potential opportunities as well as challenges. Therefore, this study explores how the knowledge-based economy could influence the quality...

Die Förderungsmöglichkeiten im Rahmen der Enwicklungszusammenarbeit sind in hohem Maße davon abhänig, in welchem Maße die Förderländer die IT-Kompetenzen in bestenden Projeken besitzen und vermitteln können. Zum anderen ist die Informationstechnologie ein eigener Sektor, der in der...

Adoption of cloud-based systems has been relatively modest — regardless of significant marketing push by major public cloud providers. The cloud-based model utilizes distributed information technology services accessible over networks. The networks can be internal part of organizations'...

Cloud computing adoption by organizations has been minor despite the initial optimism. The primary concerns obstructing adoption of cloud-based services are security, loss of control, and inadequate legislative. In a cloud-based model, information technology services are distributed and accessed...

Organizational portals are vital parts of knowledge-intensive organizations. They play several critical roles: a) provide a platform for deployment of web-based services; b) envelop distributed internal resources; and c) present a centralized access to resources and services. Portal services...