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Cybercrime Pervasiveness, Consequences, and Sustainable Counter Strategies
As our connectivity and dependency on technology increases, so does our vulnerability.
Technology has provided not only new tools, but also new opportunities
for criminals in the digital world. The abuse of new technologies has been threatening
economic and Jinancial security and actually devastating the lives of affected indivicluals. In Nigeria, cybercrime has recorded mostly foregin-based individuals
and organizations as victims thereby getting Nigeria ranked among
the nations with notorious pemasiveness of high-tech crimes. Indeed, adequately
formulating a strategy to contain the menace of cybercrime presents aformidable
challenge to law enforcement. This paper x-rays noted instances of cybercrime
pervasiveness, its devastating consequences, and up-to-date countermeasures in
Nigeria It develops an enforceable/sustainable framework to determine how critical
infrastructures are put at risk snd how law enforcement should react in responding
to the threats
Fashioning an Industrial Strategy for Garment Workers
[Excerpt] Since 1984, the [ILGWU] has initiated a series of efforts to better secure the jobs, working conditions, and earnings opportunities of garment workers and to chart new directions for small union manufacturers and contractors. In the process, the union has evolved a multi-pronged industry strategy for the women\u27s apparel industry that holds important lessons for the labor movement and for communities that depend on industrial jobs
Pervasiveness and efficacy in regulatory governance – neo-liberalism as ideology and practice in European telecommunications reorganisation
Telecommunications provides one of the most well-developed examples of the growth
of neo-liberalism. The sector is interesting since the contrast between its pre neoliberal
and post neo-liberal characteristics is particularly stark. This paper explores the
impacts of neo-liberalism in European telecommunications, placing particular focus
on the EU institutional context. It considers the conseqences of neo-liberalism as
ideology, on the one hand, and practice, on the other. It finds that, ideologically, neoliberalism
has become deeply pervasive in European telecommunications and for its
advocates can be regarded as a highly successful project spanning almost 30 years. In
terms of practice, the paper argues that the pursuit of neo-liberalism has been less
successful. In particular, competition has proven complex and difficult to create and
there are concerns over the ability of the neo-liberal model to provide sufficient
investment to deliver new Next Generation Networks. However, these deficiencies
tend to be under-played due to the ideological and rhetorical success of the neo-liberal
project in telecommunications.
Theory, reality, and possibilities for a digital/communicative socialist network society
Digital capitalism is guided by the organising principles of digital automation, information processing, and communication. It rests on the consolidation of relations of exploitation of digital labour based on flexibility and generating precarity. It makes profit from user data under conditions of surveillance. What would an alternative paradigm look like? This paper aims to sketch a possible socialist society resting on digital technology but organised on a different logic, namely that of autonomous production, leisure, and social engagement. It draws on relevant theories of the Left, evaluates them against the reality of digital capitalism, and suggests structural and user practice alternatives that can pave the way towards a digital/communicative socialism. This paper engages with the works of Czech philosopher Radovan Richta (1924-1983) and Austrian-French philosopher André Gorz (1923-2007). It shows that their ideas on the scientific and technological revolution and post-industrial socialism are highly relevant for the analysis and discussion of digital/communicative socialism
Liabilities of Regional Foreignness and the Use of Firm Level and Country Level Data
We are pleased that Dunning et al. (2006) have provided macro (country) level data demonstrating the increased internationalization of many nations over the past decade. We also appreciate their findings lending support to our perspective on the regional nature of world business. Our work was based solely on micro (firm) level data, see Rugman and Verbeke (2004a). Both country level data and firm level data have methodological problems which we attempt to reconcile in this comment. We also address the broader conceptual issues of how to interpret country level versus firm level data.Regional strategy, home region bound firm-specific advantages, liability of regional foreignness, methodology
Antitrust and Nonprofit Hospital Mergers: A Return to Basics
Courts reviewing proposed mergers of nonprofit hospitals have too often abandoned the bedrock principles of antitrust law, failing to pay heed to the most elemental hallmarks of socially beneficial competition. This Article suggests that courts’ misapplication of antitrust law in these cases reflects a failure to understand the structural details of the American health care market. After reviewing recent cases in which courts have rejected challenges to proposed mergers between nonprofit hospitals, it documents how courts have engaged in a faulty analysis that ultimately protects nonprofit hospitals from the rigors of standard antitrust scrutiny. It then identifies the core principles of antitrust law—preventing supracompetitive prices, optimizing output, and maximizing allocative efficiency—that have been absent from, if not violated by, the rulings in these merger cases
Building a bridge: social networks and technological regimes in biotechnology and software
The paper investigates the influence of technological regimes on the composition and structure of firms’ knowledge networks. We combine insights from two hitherto unconnected bodies of research: one relating technological regimes with the nature of knowledge; and the other relating knowledge and types of innovation with network configuration. Drawing on this framework, we build a number of propositions on the relationship between firms’ networking behaviour and the regime under which they operate, operationalized at both sector and firm-level.
These propositions are explored through empirical research comparing firms operating in two distinct knowledge-intensive sectors, namely biotechnology, which is commonly considered more science-based, and software, thought of as mostly technology-based.
As expected, we found that distinct technological regimes affect the knowledge search/exchange process, and thus have an impact upon the network building strategies of the firms.
The results also reveal that sector-based technological regimes have a greater explanatory capacity than firm-based regimes that cross sectoral boundaries.
The use of different approaches and techniques, together with the combination of sector and firm level analyses, provided a tool that enabled a deeper understanding of the variety of networking behaviours among knowledge-intensive firms.POCI/ESC/60500/2004 e PPCDT/ESC/60500/2004 FC
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