Background From the last decade, data mining techniques, employed in particular in customer relationship management, have assumed a key role in the profitability and operations of companies. To support small and medium companies (SMEs), several innovative and continuously improving tools have...

We introduce and apply machine transfer learning methods to analyze accounting disclosures. We use the examples of the new BERT language model and sentiment analysis of quarterly earnings disclosures to demonstrate the key transfer learning concepts of: (i) pre-training on generic “Big...

The term Big Data is being used widely by companies and researchers who consider your relevant functionalities or applications to create value and business innovation. However some questions arise about what is this phenomenon and, more precisely, how it occurs and under what conditions it can...

A computer-generated 3D model is used to illustrate the advantages of in silico techniques in virtual reality. The model is derived from theoretical data available for SMEs in service industries and for example enables a business owner (or consultant) to identify where the particular...

Drawing on a quasi-experiment, this paper analyzes the effects of providing a large amount of firm information on bank screening ability and lending activities, borrower operation activities, and banking market concentration. The experiment suggests that increasing the amount of information...

Personal profiling and predictive behavioural analysis done by Big Data applications pose immense challenges to society and democracy, especially when they violate individuals' constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights, such as the rights to privacy and data protection, and the right to...

Big data are known to improve operational efficiency, competitiveness, and performance. Despite these unprecedented benefits, the understanding of how big data transform organizational processes remains limited. To address this gap, this research empirically investigates how big data analytics...