This article documents significant dispersion in the beta estimates of exchange-traded funds as available on some leading financial websites. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first systematic study of the dispersion of betas as seen on major finance websites. Almost 40 million...

Very few provisions of the European Union intellectual property enforcement framework are subject to so many preliminary references as orders against intermediaries. The website blocking case law is also an interesting case study from the perspective of the European harmonization. It shows how...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the content of multinational corporations' (MNCs') web sites from a holistic viewpoint. Specifically, seven types of content, including communication, general information, marketing information, employment information, financial information, service, and...

Identifying disclosure communication signals as narrative, visual, and numerical, and measuring them using two methods, this study investigates how best the intangible resources can be used to communicate future-period corporate-growth reputation, measured as future sales growth, of the fastest...

As more and more users are getting to use smart phones and tablets due to the ease of use, portability, and a large range of free applications, organizations that use their websites as a vehicle to deliver important information to users should revisit their sites to check for any potential...

Marketing has always advocated a customer orientation but the reality in many companies has been different. Businesses have always known that word‐of‐mouth is an important element of marketing, but only since the emergence of Web 2.0 have businesses realised that with the power of the...

Electronic Commerce has experienced a rapid growth all over the world during the last few years. It is a new modern-day business technique by which businesses and consumers buy and sell goods and services through an electronic media. It has not only helped in increasing the speed of service...