There are but a handful of systematic studies on the history of automated teller machines (ATMs) yet all fail to address the issue of paternity while perpetrating ‘common wisdom’ beliefs. This article looks at the birth of currency dispensing equipment, the immediate predecessor to the ATM....

NetBill is a business model set of protocols, and software implementation for commerce in information goods and other network-delivered services. It has very low transaction costs for micropayments (around 1 cent for a 10 cent item), protects the privacy of the transaction, and is highly...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between firms' value drivers and their intellectual capital (IC). Design/methodology/approach – The health care sector (GICS 35) firms listed in the S&P500 were used to build a research censoring Tobit model by adopting...

Purpose – This article introduces a new way of presenting financial results, information and priorities as a dynamic three‐dimensional, colorful and live landscape that provides a rich, deep understanding of business on a conceptual level. Design/methodology/approach – The article...

Purpose – This paper is intended to test the robustness of the fitness of nested GARCH models. Design/methodology/approach – Both Monte‐Carlo simulation data and real‐world data are used in the paper. Likelihood‐family tests are used to test in‐sample fitness, while mean‐squared...

Purpose – This paper is intended to test the robustness of the fitness of nested GARCH models. Design/methodology/approach – Both Monte-Carlo simulation data and real-world data are used in the paper. Likelihood-family tests are used to test in-sample fitness, while mean-squared prediction...