according to rapid changes in information age, iranian organizations should move faster toward optimization of e-business. in order to achieve this strategic goal, recent study develops a conceptual model for presenting the factors affecting e-business diffusion (internal integration and external diffusion) based on toe framework. the purpose of this model is examining the influence of technolo...

We discuss a theoretical conceptual framework to help understand how the new business analytics technologies have diffused in firms. We draw on three theoretical perspectives for this purpose. They are innovation diffusion theory, IT Business Value and the technology-organization-environment theory. We develop a conceptual framework that helps understand the interlinkages among factors affectin...

Recent research suggests that the majority of the Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) ebusiness research focusses primarily on studying innovation diffusion within the SMEs themselves with limited research into the supply-side of innovation diffusion This study examines the supply side of innovation diffusion to SMEs in south east United Kingdom (UK). It aims to examine and provide an ind...

Current obstacles in the study of social media marketing include dealing with massive data and real-time updates have motivated to contribute solutions that can be adopted for viral marketing. Since information diffusion and social networks are the core of viral marketing, this article aims to investigate the constellation of diffusion methods for viral marketing. Studies on diffusion methods f...

National innovation systems are influencing the path of innovation diffusion like e-business. Important enablers of e-business diffusion are IT mature and innovation friendly enterprises. An indicator of IT maturity is the diffusion of former innovations like electronic data interchange (EDI). The innovation adoption behavior can be described as the adopting date after occurrence of an innovati...

Integrating cross-company business process standards in an interorganizational system (IOS) context is an emerging phenomenon on several business fronts. The practice is viewed as an enabler towards solidifying business to business connections, streamlining cross-company processes and providing a foundation for web-services. Although the practice is not new, most notably electronic data interch...

Online professional social networks are becoming an instrumental tool to facilitate relationships between business and technology professionals for career success. Even though tools such as LinkedIn can be used to manage human capital for career success use and adoption still is not universally accepted. This paper seeks to better understand the effect university, gender, and degree type has on...

In an empirical survey with 903 firms in four countries, more than one third of all firms responded that the implementation of e-business contributed substantially to improve existing operational processes and to expand markets. After a certain time lag, the diffusion of information systems and e-business applications among German industries seems to be successful in catching-up with leading co...

Software piracy refers to the illegal use of software by end users. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) in its 2002 annual report states that 40% of business software installed on computers is pirated, resulting in $11 billion in losses (BSA 2002). Given that piracy is ubiquitous in software markets, managers need to consider it in their marketing decisions. While piracy on a large scale is cl...