Two main factors influence the changes in the spatial organisation of financial institutions : the higher competition in the financial sector and the communication technologies rise. More and more, financial institutions delocalise their standard activities in the cities where the costs are...

Purpose – This study aims to assess the state of technology readiness of professional accounting students in Malaysia, to examine their level of internet self-efficacy, to assess their prior computing experience, and to explore if they are satisfied with the professional course that they are...

В статье рассматриваются вопросы информационных технологий в туризме и их роль в туристской деятельности. Туризм рассматривается как высокоинтегрированная...

This paper will is a review of the development of the virtual health sciences libraries. Virtual/digital libraries provide full text access to selected journals and books. Since, the needs of researchers and academicians cannot be met from any single source of information, integrating RSS with...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how quotes originating via electronic communication networks (ECN)s affect trading costs. Design/methodology/approach – In order to investigate the relations between trading costs and quotation venue, the bid-ask spread is decomposed into...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that, given the financial development of an economy (whether developed or not), e-finance technologies enhance economic growth because they lower processing costs for suppliers and information costs for consumers and therefore...

Purpose – Many economists and politicians have declared the price mechanism to be the most effective coordination mechanism. On the contrary, the economic perspectives at the beginning of the twenty-first century reveal that an increase in the supply of products does not necessarily engender...

Purpose – This paper tests the hypothesis that more information via higher levels of diffusion of ICT: a non-income influence, leads to an improvement in societal well being using data from a large sample of low-income countries. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical procedure utilises...

Purpose – This study aims to examine the effect of organizational relationship style (employees' relationships with colleagues, supervisors, and the organization) on the sharing of knowledge in high-tech companies; it goes on to determine which particular relationship style is the most...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the way in which the insurance industry is facing the renewal of its regulatory framework with respect to the levels of solvency that insurance entities should maintain. This paper also addresses how technological initiatives in general, and...