The Internet is becoming a key platform for commerce that is increasingly happening between buyers and sellers located in different countries, thereby driving international trade. Additionally, as the Internet enables cross-border data flows this is also underpinning global economic integration...

In 2012, the European Commission set the objective to develop, with the advice of the eHealth Network, an eHealth European Interoperability Framework in the context of the generic European Interoperability Framework (EIF). As a result, it is the goal of this study to describe the background and...

The business reporting standard XBRL offers the opportunity to easily extract and analyze a sufficient number of monetary items out of single annual reports for statistical analysis purposes. Using XBRL 10-K reports filed with the SEC EDGAR system, we derive first digit distributions for single...

The Internet is becoming a key platform for commerce that is increasingly happening between buyers and sellers located in different countries, thereby driving international trade. Additionally, as the Internet enables cross-border data flows this is also underpinning global economic integration...

Manuscript type: Research paper. Research aims: This paper aims to investigate what factors influence the intention of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Saudi Arabia to adopt the electronic data interchange (EDI). Design/Methodology/Approach: A survey involving 269 SMEs in Saudi Arabia was...

The world is experiencing unprecedented increases in connectivity and global data flows. This is underpinning the so-called fourth industrial revolution. Cross-border data access, usage and exchange is essential to economic growth in the digital age. Every industry - including manufacturing,...

It is sometimes assumed that the Internet provides a sufficient basis for conducting business electronically. However, for business relationships between companies more is required, since electronic forms of business are meant to automate large parts of the business processes involved. To enable...