As companies move forward to source globally, supply chain management has gained attention more than ever before. In particular, the discovery and selection of capable suppliers has become a prerequisite for a global supply chain operation. Manufacturing e-marketplaces have helped companies quickly and effectively discover new suppliers and/or buyers for their products and services. However, as...

Publication and archival of scientific results is still commonly considered the responsability of classical publishing companies. Classical forms of publishing, however, which center around printed narrative articles, no longer seem well-suited in the digital age. In particular, there exist currently no efficient, reliable, and agreed-upon methods for publishing scientific datasets, which have ...

We hypothesize that this variation in the extent and nature of financial data disseminated through corporate Web sites is associated with the factors that influence the initial disclosure of financial information. We consider information items that contain required disclosures separately from those that contain mainly voluntary disclosures, since most previous work that identifies factors affec...

We investigate how eight concepts derived from the media characteristics of the WWW impact corporate success in E-Business if implemented as features of companies’ web sites. We construct a path model for testing our research hypotheses on three subsets of a representative survey of 1,308 cases, 469 general-, 215 which target businesses (B2B), and 224 companies which target consumers (B2C). We ...

This paper investigates how knowledge workers utilize the Web to seek external information as part of their daily work. Thirty four participants from seven companies were interviewed about their information needs and preferences. In addition, a custom-developed software application recorded each participant’s Web behavior for a two week monitoring period. To understand better the significant ep...

Introduction Web sites are developed by a wide variety of companies from small one or two person operations to large corporations with entire teams and departments devoted to web development work. Many of the smaller companies have no usability professionals to help with the design of their sites; many of the companies don’t even realize they should have usability professionals assess their sit...

Web agencies are firms which develop web based models for companies. These models vary from simple web pages through on-line marketing techniques all the way to full process integration to payment solutions. The operation of web agencies raise several dilemmas: for instance how pricing of such services are set, what type of technology they use and what type of carrier path they provide for the ...

The XML Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a standard for business and financial information reporting. It is based on XML so instance documents based on XBRL, e.g. a quarterly report, are highly constrained by the XML document-oriented nature. This makes more difficult to perform queries that mix information from filings from different dates, companies, or accounting principles than with a ...

Recently, the extraordinary growth in the World Wide Web has been sweeping through business and industry. Many companies have developed or integrated their mission-critical applications using Web technologies. As Web applications become complex, testing Web applications becomes crucial. This paper extends traditional data flow testing techniques to Web applications. Several data flow issues for...