In den letzten Jahren hat sich die Forschung verstärkt mit Fragen der Qualität und der Eigenschaften von Websites im E-Commerce-Bereich beschäftigt. Bisher liegt kein wissenschaftlich fundierter und allgemein akzeptierter Website-Eigenschafts-Katalog zur nutzerfokussierten Bewertung der...

In den letzten Jahren hat sich die Forschung verstärkt mit Fragen der Qualität und der Eigenschaften von Websites im E-Commerce-Bereich beschäftigt. Bisher liegt kein wissenschaftlich fundierter und allgemein akzeptierter Website-Eigenschafts-Katalog zur nutzerfokussierten Bewertung der...

The book deals with product recommendations generated by information systems referred to as recommender systems. Recommender systems assist consumers in making product choices by providing recommendations of the range of products and services offered in an online purchase environment. The...

The study focuses on user satisfaction with websites and personalised internet applications in particular. The abundance of information on the web is increasing more and more. Therefore, the significance of websites targeting the users' preferences, like personalised Internet applications, is...

Beside its cost-efficient benefits, e-government plays an important role in reducing corruption. As most developing countries, especially in Africa are fighting corruption, e-government is seen as a new way of addressing it. E-government is thought to reduce corruption through increased...

Craigslist, a website that hosts job- and help-wanted ads, expanded rapidly across the states in the USA over a very short period of time, thereby changing abruptly the market structure faced by competing employment websites. We exploit this abrupt change to evaluate its impact on competing...

Distribution is a key variable in any industry because it ensures the delivery of products and services to consumers. However, over the years businesses have increasingly implemented information and communication technology; this has triggered profound changes in distribution channels. A number...

Beside its cost-efficient benefits, e-government plays an important role in reducing corruption. As most developing countries, especially in Africa are fighting corruption, e-government is seen as a new way of addressing it. E-government is thought to reduce corruption through increased...

The aim of the present study is to try to understand the behaviour of the organisational consumers in the online environment. We have attempted to identify specific activities undertaken in the online acquisition process by the persons responsible for purchasing within the companies located in...

As a consequence of the recent progress of virtual learning environments at universities, there are many theoretical and empirical studies focused on analyzing whether the website design or rather the personal characteristics of the students, are the most influential factors on their...

Most of articles that have recently appeared studying electronic service quality propose scales that are focused on measuring the quality of a particular service. However, could these scales be applied to measure the quality of other online services? In this situation, the main purpose of this...

Due to the increasing number of promotional banners hosted on websites, it is important to study how the use of price discounts may affect attitudes toward the banner and the website, and how this effect may vary depending on the user's experience of the Internet. This paper endeavors to fill...

Most of articles that have recently appeared studying electronic service quality propose scales that are focused on measuring the quality of a particular service. However, could these scales be applied to measure the quality of other online services? In this situation, the main purpose of this...

This paper is aimed to explore and compare disclosure on corporate governance mechanisms in the annual reports of commercial banks for two emerging countries: Romania and Malaysia. There were selected 34 banks situated in Romania and Malaysia, in order to highlight the influence of culture and...

В статье обосновывается необходимость проведения оценки стоимости Интернет-сайта. Представлены основные методы оценки стоимости сайта. Проводится детальный...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...