...., 2015). Muhammad Ali can be contacted at: alisaleem_01@yahoo.com 26 09 2020 18 01 2021 20 01 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Behavior Information Financial services Individual behavior Islamic...

...Leena Ilmola‐Sheppard; Osmo Kuusi Purpose This paper aims to investigate the role of information as a source of resilience in organizations. It presents both a theory based construct of information filters of the environment scanning and a pragmatic tool for managing the process...

...Carlos Rodríguez Casal; Christine Van Wunnik; Luis Delgado Sancho; Jean Claude Burgelman; Paul Desruelle Purpose This paper aims to present the results of a research project that the Institute for Prospective Technology Studies commissioned to research the possible effects of information...

...H. Bouwman; P. van der Duin Information and communication technology (ICT) is increasingly being used in the home environment, making it a very important and interesting research topic for communication scientists. Future developments will influence the way and the extent to which ICT will be used...

...Risto Kalliola This article highlights the potential challenges facing a number of different sectors in the modern information‐based society and discusses problems relating to the application of digital spatial information systems increasingly used for such diverse purposes as political decision...

.... A transformation of modern representative democracy is underway and information and communication technology (ICT) is a key component in the evolution of more participatory democratic governments. The failings of modern representative democracy are highlighted by the decline in voting turnout rates and a high...

... of the standard sciences is presented as a sine qua non to futurology. The relationship between knowledge and information is elaborated and clarified, which makes it possible to better understand the present era as an information age. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Information Knowledge‐based systems...

...Pekka Jokinen This article discusses prospects of strengthening new increasingly global economic activities and environmental governance by focusing on the institutional relationship between information society policy issues and environmental policy issues. These two sets of issues have some common...

.... The factors driving this sustained growth are many, technological, demographic as well as social and behavioural. This article examines the trends driving the economy, especially the impact of information and communications technologies and globalization on business activity with special emphasis...

...Riel Miller Few dispute the very strong likelihood that within twenty years the global information infrastructure, often referred to as the internet or “the net” will become as generalized, indispensable and invisible as today”s phone or electrical networks. Many commentators also expect...

... 1999 Change Internet Information Camford foresight/ vol.01, no.05, oct.99 th e jou rn al of futu res stu dies, strateg ic th inkin g an d p olicy © 1999 American Council f or the United Nat ions Universit y .453 14 63 -6 68 9/ 99 /0 50 45 3 -13 f otrheou gh t * Jerome C. Glenn is Executive...

.... It identifies two parallel trends. One is that instantaneous communication, the growth of large network‐based communities, virtual companies and the attendant problem of taxation collection will strengthen globalization. The other, almost contradictory, trend is that advances in information technology...

... full effect. Right now, we live in an information society in which the ownership changed from that of the industrial society. The process of change is not easy. It creates problems at work and in the family. But where is the ownership of time going to in the next phase of society, the dream society...