infonet-economy

The Snowden documents have revealed that intelligence agencies conduct large-scale digital surveillance by exploiting vulnerabilities in the hardware and software of communication infrastructures. These vulnerabilities have been characterized as “weaknesses,” “flaws,” “bugs,” and “backdoors.” Some of these result from errors in the design or implementation of systems, others from...

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) is a key concept in precision medicine. The goal of TDM is to avoid therapeutic failure or toxic effects of a drug due to insufficient or excessive circulating concen-tration exposure related to between-patient variability in the drug’s disposition. We present TUCUXI – an intelligent system for TDM. By making use of embedded mathematical models, the...

Notre étude contribue à mieux comprendre les antécédent de l’engagement RSE des très grandes entreprises cotées et ses conséquence s. En analysant l’engagement RSE des entreprises du S&P 500, nos résultats montrent tout d’abord que cet engagement présente un effet cumulatif ; les entreprises engagées dans une démarche RSE ont tendance à enrichir celle - ci année après année....

D’après l’OCDE (2009), la plupart des entreprises créées en Afrique sont des SARL (ou assimilées) et la plupart des emplois provient de cette catégorie d’entreprises. Conscientes des enjeux de l’entrepreneuriat collectif, les autorités de la plupart des pays d ’ Afrique de l ’ Ouest et Centrale se sont engagées à créer un environnement politique, institutionnel, juridique et...

In recent years, some significant cases of fraud have been noted in recent years in the Swiss banking sector. The consequences of these malicious acts involve many costs and a severe loss of image for the concerned banks. The purpose of our research is to identify the factors that cause employees to commit such acts that are harmful to their employers. In this paper, we attempt to...

The purpose of this research was to explore self-directed learning (SDL) in the context of online learning. The experiences of traditional and nontraditional learners engaged in an online course as part of a degree-seeking program are explored in terms of readiness for SDL and the processes of planning, monitoring, and evaluating one’s own learning in the online context. The findings...

This paper applies a social capital perspective to study how business units leverage individuals’ external networks to explore and exploit resources outside the firm’s boundaries. We explore this matter inductively by analysing the development and leveraging of social capital at the business unit level in a global commodity company. Our findings show how individuals’ strong and weak...

Our study examines the nomological network of active procrastination in comparison with passive procrastination. In particular, we examine the effects of the five factor model with the aim to understand which personality traits predict academic procrastination. We also test the effect of passive and active procrastination on academic performance to study the unique contribution of...