SBANC
Newsletter
September
26, 2006
Issue
440-2006
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QUOTE
"The
mission statement of my company, Kathy Ireland Worldwide, is
to find solutions for families, especially busy moms. I'm reaching
out to busy moms because that's what I am. That's what I know,
and I know this woman has been underserved."
-- Kathy
Ireland
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FEATURE
PAPER
Ethics of Computer Use:
A Survey of Student Attitudes
The
following paper was presented at the 2006 Allied Academies Conference.
It was written by Alden C. Lorents, Jo-Mae B. Maris, James N.
Morgan, and Gregory L. Neal of Northen Arizona University.
Abstract
An
important issue for many years has been the potential for misuse
of computer systems and
resources. Rapid growth in use of the Internet and distributed
systems for financial and other
sensitive purposes causes ethical issues surrounding misuse of
computer resources to become
increasingly serious problem.
This
paper surveys ethical attitudes of undergraduate business majors.
The survey presented
scenarios. Students were asked to indicate whether scenario actions
were ethical or unethical using
a seven level Likert scale. Base scenarios were designed to present
ethical issues relating to
unauthorized access to computer resources. Other base scenarios
focus on using computers to
illegally copy products. For each base scenario, sub-scenarios
were presented where the motives
of the individual vary between intellectual curiosity, securing
resources for personal use, profit, and
malice. These scenarios provided an evaluation of how the level
of malicious intent affects students’ perception of the
degree ethical breach. Results
suggest that the intent of the individual engaging in unauthorized
access or illegal
copying does substantially affect student perceptions of the
degree to which the behavior is a
violation of ethics. In general, actions undertaken for profit
or malicious intent were judged to be
less ethical than the same actions undertaken for intellectual
curiosity or to secure resources for
personal use. Introduction
Research in information systems security and control, has reported
large losses attributable
to unethical activities (Straub, 1986). Pearson et al. define three
factors which require further study
of ethical behavior of IS professionals. These include a greater
reliance on IT systems across the
business enterprise, increasing use of system generated information
for decision making, and the
lack of single unified code of ethics for all IT personnel (Pearson,
et. al., 1996).
Professional organizations like ACM and SAGE (http://www.sage.org)
have implemented
an ethical code of conduct. In addition, organizations are increasingly
establishing codes of ethics
for internal use with about 93% of U.S. firms having such codes
in place in 1992 (Berenbeim, 1992).
Unfortunately, many of these codes are either very general statements
which are difficult for
workers to translate into individual situations or, in some cases
the ethical statements are viewed by
workers with a certain denial of responsibility (Harrington,
1996). As a result, gaining
understanding of ethical issues is best accomplished through
the use of scenarios. These scenarios
must be specific and engage the participant.
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CONFERENCES
FSF
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| Who: |
Swedish
Foundation for Small Business Research
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| What: |
The Northern Lights Symposium 2006
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| Where: |
Lulea,
Sweden |
| When: |
October
2-4,
2006 |
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BI
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| Who: |
Barcoding Inc.
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| What: |
The Future of Barcoding and RFID Conference
and Exhibition
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| Where: |
Schaumburg, Illinois, USA |
| When: |
October
12, 2006 |
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SBI
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| Who: |
Small
Business Institute
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| What: |
Mid-Year
Meeting
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| Where: |
Louisville,
Kentucky, USA |
| When: |
October
12-15, 2006 |
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IABE
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| Who: |
International
Academy of Business and Economics (IABE)
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| What: |
IABE-2006
Annual Conference
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| Where: |
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
| When: |
October
15-18, 2006 |
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BSC
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| Who: |
Balanced
Scorecard Collaborative
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| What: |
2006
BSC North American Summit
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| Where: |
Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego, CA |
| When: |
November
7-9, 2006 |
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CALLS FOR PAPERS
SWDSI
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| Who: |
Southwest
Decision Sciences Institute
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| What: |
SWDSI Conference
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| Where: |
Town and Country Resort - San Diego,
California, USA |
| When: |
March
13th-17th, 2007 |
Submission
Deadline:
September 29, 2006
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WDSI
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| Who: |
Western
Decision Sciences Institute
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| What: |
2007 WDSI Annual Meeting
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| Where: |
The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center
in Englewood, Colorado |
| When: |
April 3-7, 2007 |
Submission
Deadline:
October 1, 2006
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IBEC
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| Who: |
San Fransisco
State University
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| What: |
2007 International Business and Economy
Conference
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| Where: |
San Fransisco,
California, USA |
| When: |
January
4-7,
2007 |
Submission
Deadline:
October 1, 2006
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ACME
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| Who: |
Association
of Collegiate Marketing Editors
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| What: |
2007
Annual Meeting
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| Where: |
San
Diego, California, USA |
| When: |
March
13-17, 2007 |
Submission
Deadline:
October 1, 2006
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EIRASS
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| Who: |
European
Institute of Retailing and Services Studies |
| What: |
14th
EIRASS Conference
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| Where: |
San
Fransisco, California, USA |
| When: |
June
19 - July 1, 2007 |
Submission
Deadline:
October 1, 2006
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RCC
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| Who: |
Rollins China Center, Rollins
College |
| What: |
The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises:
The Advent of a New Age
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| Where: |
Rollins
College in Winter Park, Florida, USA |
| When: |
November 30-December 1, 2006 |
Submission
Deadline:
October 15, 2006
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TIP
OF THE WEEK
New
Analysis of Data on Women in Business and the Labor Force
The number
of women-owned firms increased by nearly 20 percent over the
1997-2002 period, according to a new analysis of Census data
from the Office of Advocacy. According to the report, Women
in Business: A Demographic Review of Women's Business Ownership,
women owned 6.5 million or 28.2 percent of nonfarm US firms in
2002.
More than 14 percent of the women owned firms - 916,768 - had
employees: these firms employed 7.1 million workers and paid 173.7
billion in annual payroll. They are responsible for about 86 percent
of the receipts of women-owned firms.
Most women-owned businesses are very small - more than 79 percent
had receipts of less than $50,000 in 2002. The receipts of these
small firms totaled about 6 percent of all women-owned business
receipts in both 1997 and 2002.
The 7,420 women-owned firms with 100 employees or more accounted
for $275.0 billion in gross receipts of women-owned employer firms
in 2002.
The largest shares of women-owned business receipts were in wholesale
and retail trade and manufacturing in both 1997 and 2002.
The report is full of data not only about demographic, industrial,
and geographic characteristics of women-owned businesses, but also
about women in the work force, their self-employment, and the economic
well-being. Women constituted 51 percent of the American population
and nearly 47 percent of the labor force in 2004, the reports note.
Many women work in management, business, and financial occupations.
Almost 24 percent of women in the labor force hold professional
and related occupations.
The percentage of women
working more than one job (either in wage-and-salary work and/or
self-employment) is small, but roughly the same as
for men: 2.4 percent of the women and 2.9 percent of men are "moonlighters."
As has been
true in the past, women are more likely than men to be poor:
of women in the United States, 14.5 percent were in poverty.
They also carry a large share of the responsibility for care giving:
nearly one in four families was headed by a single mother caring
for children younger than 18. To view the full report, visit www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs280tot.pdf.
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Small Business Advocate. September 2006.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is pleased to announce the
Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program, an initiative that will
help launch a cohort of world-class scholars in the area of entrepreneurship.
During the 2006-2007 academic year, the Kauffman Foundation will
award up to fifteen Dissertation Fellowship grants of $15,000 each
to Ph. D., D.B.A. or other doctoral students for the support of
dissertation in the area of entrepreneurship. Application deadline
is October9, 2006. For more information download the RFP at www.kauffman.org/research.
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