Information discovery on the Web has so far been dominated by keyword-based document search. However, recent years have witnessed arising needs from Web users to search for named entities, e.g., finding all Silicon Valley companies. With existing Web search engines, users have to digest returned Web pages by themselves to find the answers. Entity search has been introduced as a solution to this...

The diversity in software used to support collaborative design and concurrent engineering requires the implementation of new technologies in order to ensure the integration between the various activities of the product development process. Most of the time, companies can not afford to spend the time and the funds required to enhance their IT and software resources. This is often the case of sma...

The paper focuses on the consequences of web-based business-to-business transactions in medium and large old economy companies in particular and discusses the implications for HRM and HR professionals. Medium and large old economy companies can be involved in transactions within the new economy in different ways. First of all the paper gives an overview of the striking characteristics that dist...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: XBRL Information asymmetry Corporate disclosure Firm size Korean stock market This paper examines whether or not XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) adoption reduces information asymmetry in a stock market context. Student t-tests and multiple regression analysis were employed to examine the effect of XBRL adoption on information asymmetry in the capita...

The Web is becoming in many respects a powerful tool for supporting business strategy as companies are quickly becoming more and more reliant on new Web-based technologies to capitalize on new business opportunities. However, this introduces additional managerial problems and risks that have to be taken into consideration, if they are not to be left behind. In this chapter we explore the Web’s ...

With the accelerating growth of internet users, a rise of globalization, distributed work environments, knowledge-based economies, and collaborative business models, it becomes clear that there is currently a high and growing number of organizations that demand a proper webstrategy. The emergence of web 2.0 technologies has led many internet companies, such as Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, and Fac...

Web data mining aims at discovering useful knowledge from various Web resources. There is a growing trend among companies, organizations, and individuals alike of gathering information through Web data mining to utilize that information in their best interest. In science, cloud computing is a synonym for distributed computing over a network; cloud computing relies on the sharing of resources to...

The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines characteristics and changes in Web searching from nine studies of five Web search engines based in the US and Europe. We compare interactions occurring between users and Web search engines from the perspectives of s...

Web services can be seen as a pillar block for achieving electronic B2B transactions. More and more companies are using Web services to achieve transactions with their partners and/or offer on-line services. These companies have to make their Web services available for consultation through their own private Web service registries. As a result, the number of Web service registries that are made ...