'Abstract – M-Health field focuses on the use of mobile technologies to support healthy behavior, hospital care, patient monitoring and educational awareness. It is a new field that is developing rapidly, with many mHealth applications developed within the last few years alone. M-Health also introduces the term Mobile Social Networking Healthcare, which means “The use of mobile health applications that incorporate social networking tools to promote healthy behaviours and awareness among patient…
Social Performance Corporate social responsibility is the the obligation of an entity for their actions to align with the interest of their stakeholders, the environment and society in general (Birt 2014). Qantas has eight key business principles and group policies in order to maintain a socially responsible business. These policies have been board approved and are non-negotiable. They are presented in a mandatory training program to ensure they are understood and reliably implemented by all…
Chrysler) held close to 85 percent of the US market, VW and Daimler Benz dominated the market in Germany, as did Fiat in Italy, British Leyland (later Rover) in the UK, Seat in Spain, and Renault, Peugeot, and Citroen in France. By 2004, the industry was global in scope—the world’s leading manufacturers were competing in most of the countries of the world. Internationalization required establishing distributors and dealership networks in overseas countries, and often building manufacturing…
When using information systems, it is essential to ask, “What is the ethical and socially responsible course of action?” A MODEL FOR THINKING ABOUT ETHICAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL ISSUES Ethical, social, and political issues are closely linked. The ethical dilemma you may face as a manager of information systems typically is reflected in social and political debate. One way to think about these relationships is given in Figure 4-1. Imagine society as a more or less calm pond on a summer…