European Business School London

About: European Business School London is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Real estate investment trust & Empirical research. The organization has 323 authors who have published 636 publications receiving 17446 citations. The organization is also known as: EBS London.

Whistleblowing: the UK experience. Part 1

Abstract: An historical saunter is taken through the development of approaches, legal and organisational, to deal with whistleblowing. Whistleblowing engenders strong emotions, and it is not surprising that some of the early pioneers met with stiff resistance. Some classic whistleblowing cases are analysed, notably Stanley Adams and charge nurse Graham Pink. Key developments and cases during the Thatcher period are outlined. Employment law was rather primitive, and failed to give much definitive protection to whistleblowers. The contribution of the Committee of Lord Nolan on Standards in Public Life is outlined. The area of higher education, and the pivotal territory of financial services, accounting and auditing also are treated.

RefModPM: A Conceptual Reference Model for Project Management Information Systems

Abstract: Project management information systems have changed considerably in the last decade Today they go far beyond traditional scheduling as well as resource management These systems have become comprehensive information systems (IS) that support the entire life cycle of projects, project programmes and project portfolios In this context, project-oriented organizations face a new challenge: the design, implementation and operation of such information systems has become increasingly complex, since numerous processes have to be considered, diverse stakeholder interests taken into account and corresponding software systems selected The reference model for project management IS (RefModPM) presented here addresses these challenges and aims to support corresponding implementation projects This article introduces RefModPM by discussing its construction process and evaluation, as well as providing an overview of its architecture and presenting one part of the reference model in detail

Legal Liability when Individuals Have Moral Concerns

Abstract: We incorporate normative motivations into the unilateral precaution model of tort. Individuals have moral concerns about causing harm and would like others to believe that they do. In the absence of legal liability, causing harm suggests low concerns and is therefore damaging to one's social image, which feeds back into incentives to take precautions. These nevertheless remain suboptimal when informal motivations are not strong enough for injurers to willingly compensate victims ex post. By contrast, perfectly enforced legal liability crowds out informal motivations completely (e.g., tortfeasors suffer no disesteem) but precautions are then efficient. Under imperfect enforcement, informal motivations and legal sanctions complement one another. With strict liability, individuals held liable suffer disesteem, there is some motivational crowding-out but no net crowding-out with respect to overall incentives. Under the negligence rule, there is motivational crowding-in when image concerns induce bunching on the legal due care standard. The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Yale University. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com, Oxford University Press.

Open courseware and open source software

Abstract: eginning as a personal project by Linus Tor-valds, the Linux operating system continuestoday as a community of volunteers and atthe same time has generated a huge commercialmarket. In April 2001 the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology (MIT)announced the Open-CourseWare project,making all of MIT’scourseware freely avail-able on the Web (seeocw.mit.edu); MIT’sintention was not todesign an e-learningenvironment. MITplans the official launchof its courseware thismonth, with 500courses online in thefirst stage. Coursewareincludes lecture notes,course outlines, readinglists, and assignments supporting traditional class-room teaching. Within 10 years, more than 2,000courses will be online. While putting individual course material online isalready a widespread practice, the systematic organi-zation of freely available course material from differ-ent academic disciplines in a standardized,searchable archive on an organizational level is aninnovative approach. The project’s name suggestssome conceptual relation to open source software,and the first press release was used in newspaperfront-page articles throughout the world. Will thisapproach now have a similar impact on universityteaching as open source had on software development?The suitability of a product for an openapproach is influenced by both the basic nature ofthe product and the motivation of the contributorson an individual and organizational level. The exis-tence of open products in turn influences commu-nities and markets.While communities aregroups of people infor-mally bound together byshared expertise and pas-sion for a joint enter-prise [4], participants inmarkets are motivatedby expected financialreturns. Existing prod-ucts and services incommunities and mar-kets are assumed to havea moderating influenceon the nature of theproduct (by providing apublicly available basis for further development), aswell as on the motivation of the contributors (byenhancing their visibility). The figure here illus-trates our framework, which also forms theroadmap for the subsequent analysis.