Purpose –The purpose of the study is to examine the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) on the announcement of firms’ stock market returns. The authors investigate the stock market reaction on ERP adopters and ERP vendor firms in the USA during 1990-2010. The study examines...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to assign polarity score to each post from Facebook fan pages, and then examine whether the Comments submitted by users on a post from fan page have a significant relationship with the popularity of that post. Being aware of how to enhance the popularity...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to help us better understand if it is beneficial for individuals to use social networking sites (SNSs) to expand their networking opportunities, translating into greater career success. A significant key to career success is networking. SNSs are changing...

Purpose –The purpose of this paper has been to address the research question of how are the processes of resource enrichment and capability deployment coordinated during information technology (IT) implementation at a small- and medium-sized accounting firm (SMAF)? Increasingly, organizations...

Purpose – This paper aims to understand the contribution made by Facebook as a marketing tool for companies, and through empirical observation (interviews and questionnaires) and theoretical analysis (studies and academic literature on the subject), to analyse the reactions of individuals in...

Purpose –The paper aims to examine the rounding phenomenon in reported earnings and revenues of Japanese publicly listed firms to achieve key reference points. The paper also examines the changes of rounding behavior among Japanese publicly listed firms around the asset bubble burst in 1990....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the influence of several firm-specific characteristics on the extent of voluntary disclosure in eXtensible business reporting language (XBRL). Design/methodology/approach – A disclosure checklist consisting of 54 financial and...