AUTHOR Massimo Durante ABSTRACT Trust is one of the key social concepts “that helps human agents to cope with their social environment and is present in all human interactions” (Gambetta, 1990). Without trust in other agents, infrastructures and organizations, human interactions are weakened and, ulti-mately, almost no social cooperation would be possible. Trust is fundamental […]

AUTHOR Alfreda Dudley and Karen Mather ABSTRACT It is approaching fifty years since the publication of “A Theory of Justice” in which John Rawls advocated a principle of fair distribution of the social and economic benefits derived from community-living. Yet, the so-called “digital divide” signifies that information and communication technologies (ICT) have added a new […]

AUTHOR Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Margaryta Anokhina ABSTRACT Introduction Gossip as a phenomenon have been investigated in different research fields such as anthropology, psychology and specifically evolutionary psychology, sociology, management, behavioral economy, sociology, and communication studies, (De Backer), organization studies and ethics. The aim of this article is to discuss the ethics of gossip at the […]

AUTHOR Richard Cozzens ABSTRACT This paper examines what the experts are listing as advantages and disadvantages of a web-based training course. The paper also takes a look at the effectiveness and feasibility as well as the ethical issues facing a web-based training course. This is accomplished by first finding out what the current experts are […]

AUTHOR Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Nuno Miguel Araújo da Silva and Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva ABSTRACT Innovation traditionally was viewed as a linear process: from basic research to technology development and on to test/evaluation, demonstration, deployment, commercialization, and ultimately, market penetration. And perhaps, if successful, market saturation, obsolescence, and finally replacement. Human (and […]

AUTHOR Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva , Bernd Stahl, Mary Prior and Simon Rogerson ABSTRACT During the past three decades, technologies for educational purpose have been used to attempt to achieve better learning outcomes. Thirty years of educational research indicates that technology is effective in education. Many studies have been […]