Agricultural and applied communicators have long focused on distributing new production and management ideas to their agricultural clientele. The conceptual basis for their work is found in diffusion theory developed by Rogers and others in the early 1960s. Diffusion literature grew rapidly in the 1960s and 1970s as it described the path of technological innovation during a period of worldwide ...

The term “Business Model”started to gain momentum in the early rise of the new economy and it is currently used both in business practice and scientific research. Under a general point of view BMs are considered as a contact point among technology, organization and strategy used to describe how an organization gets value from technology and uses it as a source of competitive advantage. Recent c...

The Web as related to commerce suffers from a fundamental asymmetry. While there is a great number of commercial offers available, consumer needs are rarely represented explicitly. Thus, the most widely applied process of connecting the prospective consumer of a resource with its supplier is Web search. In Web search, the user needs are implicit, driving the interaction, and therefore only the ...

The phenomenon of open-source software development has already stimulated a wide debate within different academic communities (economists, information scientists, business strategists, operational researchers, etc.) and research approaches. Aim of this paper is to add a new and complementary perspective on the existing economic analysis of open-source software by comparing the structure and evo...

This paper explores issues of eValue creation within communities joined through the Web, and the implications on end user acceptance of pervasive information and communication technology (ICT). We draw on developments in several streams of research on network economics in order to understand the changed logic of value creation on the Web, and its implications on the moderators of user acceptanc...

Cross-cultural knowledge management in the e-environment results from interactions with others from different cultures that require new understanding and interpretations. The authors find that few studies have been conducted to address the objective of identifying the competences that are needed to promote learning and information processing in the 21st century. The authors’ primary goal is to ...

One of the least studied areas of Information Systems (IS) is software operations support, also known as software maintenance. As organizations move to the e-business economy, software is either being purchased, modified, or outsourced. What remains inside the organization is software support, modification, evaluation of user business process, assisting users with new or modified requirements, ...

Plural globalizations refer to large-scale processes occurring today at an accelerated pace (due to information and communication technologies) and with extremely uneven effects (due to continuing and new inequalities). Conventional analytical and disciplinary frameworks can neither make adequate sense of, nor effectively politicize, these developments. The quantitatively large scales and quali...

Nowadays, information and communication technologies are incorporating extremely rapidly to the individual’s education and training. This trend lead the European academic research to focus on key terms like open distance learning or lifelong learning. In this context, there are a large number of past and actual projects and researches concerning the content, methodologies, technologies and new ...