• Business-to-business and business-to-consumer exchange of tangible or intangible goods. • Financial services, such as e-banking, e-investment, or e-insurance. • Information services, like e-publishing (newspapers, magazines, e-books etc). • Entertainment services, such as games, e-travelling (electronic reservation of tickets, accommodation etc). • Personal services, like e-education, e-learn...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is well recognised as a key technological infrastructure that facilitates business operations and growth in a dynamic business environment. Implementation of ERP system however is mirrored by numerous problems, a fact well cited in many academic studies. Research addressing the reasons for ERP implementation problems has identified a plethora of success...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect between intangible and tangible (i.e. financial) organizational performance as well as the effects of the crucial influencing factors “trust”, “strategic relevance” and “participation”. Design/methodology/approach – Structural equation modelling is used to test a large-scale empirical study of more than 100 German business networks. Q...

Purpose: To analyze the main types of intangible assets as sources economic and social outcomes in large corporations. Design/methodology/approach: We create a sample corporations with data from two secondary databases: Fortune Most Admired Companies Interbrand. study business’ legitimacy through their presence on Google.com. perform quantitative analysis by testing proposed hypotheses against ...

Purpose The intangible assets of a company have been presented by national and international surveys as resource to influence the creation value increase in organizational performance. In view this, this study aims analyze relationship between intangibility performance companies Latin America. Design/methodology/approach For purpose, multiple regression with panel data was used three perspectiv...

To thrive in the current embedded and electronic competitive environment, organizations must achieve advantageous positions within their networks of competition. We strengthen the understanding of the genesis of network structures by examining the IT-enabled capabilities and internal resource endowment that determine an advantageous position in competition networks, which we term as competitive...

Dual distribution systems where firms simultaneously use vertical integration and market governance are widely used across diverse marketing contexts (e.g., restaurants, retailing, and industrial selling). A prominent example of dual distribution includes business format franchising, where firms, the franchisors, license operation of some of its units to franchisees while simultaneously owning ...

As part of an effort to examine the value of intangible assets in the firm, our study is the first to create IT-related intangible asset stocks from firm-level survey data. We also use data on ITrelated business practices in order to understand the distribution of IT-related intangibles, and we create asset stocks to value research and development (R&D) and brand. Using a panel of 130 firms ove...

Nowadays, knowledge has become a determinant capital for enterprise to retain and improve competitive advantage. In other words, knowledge and intellectual capital are crucial intangible resources and also need to be emphasized and manage appropriately. Because knowledge is abstract, intangible, and difficult to measure, it becomes an important issue to evaluate intellectual capital for busines...

Intellectual capital can be regarded as the hidden value of an organization. The intention of these social capitals (human, organizational and customer) is to value the intangible asset and reassess the knowledge gaps to improve the business advantage. Although intangible assets may represent competitive advantage, organizations do not understand their nature and value. Managers do not know the...