This paper examines the predictability of price and volume movements using Google Insights on equities exhibiting earnings surprise and the association with pre-announcement information searching. The motivation for this paper is to answer two primary research questions. First of all, using more...

Firms depend on information technology to provide high quality internal information, but prior research suggests that IT is underutilized. Prior research suggests that when CEOs have experience with IT, then IT is more likely to be accepted throughout their firms. We take these arguments a step...