IJBRIT.V1.N1.2014

Gerald E. Evans Neil Morton The University of Montana ABSTRACT Which is the more important factor in gaining sustained competitive advantage: implementation of information technology or organizational changes to take advantage of technology? A stratified sample of large, medium, small and tiny business that had recently implemented new information technology for the purpose of gaining […]

Michelle B. Kunz Janet M. Ratliff Morehead State University ABSTRACT This study investigates the sustainability of information posted by the 2012 Fortune 500 corporations on their respective websites, and information reporting submitted to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Data collected from the GRI searchable database and analyzed, indicate the size of the corporation is a […]

Geralyn Miller Lawrence A. Kuznar Maneesh Sharma Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne ABSTRACT The fundamental purpose of this study is to understand the utilization of financial education tools and resources by American families by employing an ethnographic methodology. An ethnographic approach was used in which subjects were visited where they conducted their online financial information seeking (mostly […]

Stephen L. Baglione Saint Leo University Louis A. Tucci The College of New Jersey ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to assess whether computer-based simulations, which offer approximations of the business world without the dire consequences of financial ruin, are perceived by students as creating higher-order learning and preparing them for the business world. […]

Sandi Findlay-Thompson Karen Blotnicky Mount Saint Vincent University ABSTRACT This study assesses the influence of entrepreneurial experience, business experience, size, and engagement in research and technology as predictors of export activity for women business owners in Atlantic Canada. Exporters are an economic driver of the Canadian economy and exporting can be an important strategic means […]

Ryan J. Weissmueller Gary G. Johnson Southeast Missouri State University ABSTRACT This study focuses on the timeliness of 10K and 10Q reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by large public companies. Results show that 65.2% of sampled companies decreased the number of days to file their annual 10-K reports when using eXtensible Business […]

Gundars Kaupins Boise State University Mark Johnson Idaho State University ABSTRACT This study compares the readability and content of the privacy policies among the top ten business news websites in the United States. Based on the average of six indices, the privacy policies are at the college freshman reading level that is higher than the […]

Mohammed Akour Yarmouk University, Jordan Iman Akour Wiley College, Texas Tariq King Engineering Manager and Test Architect, Ultimate Software Florida, USA ABSTRACT This study described and evaluated a model-driven approach that maps structural adaptations in autonomic software, to updates for its runtime test model and provided a workflow and meta-model to support the approach, referred […]

Chunhui Liu Grace O’Farrell University of Winnipeg ABSTRACT Telecommunication development has experienced significant growth since the 1990s. Despite the high perceived value of information technology (IT), empirical studies have generally reported mixed results when examining the relationship between information technology spending and productivity. Based on contingency theory, we hypothesize that firm characteristics affect how investment […]