Recent trends in e-finance have shown that mobile technology is growing, and with this growth come new opportunities for deploying new services for customers. The purpose of this study is to explore how the healthcare industry can be more innovative in its use of social media. The literature was...

To explore the evolution of consumers' transition behaviour under collaborative e-commerce, on the basis of actual Chinese collaborative e-commerce vendors Rakuten, Flashpoint 100 and so on a framework of e-commerce consumer transition behaviour is proposed. Related literature in sum has...

A mobile advertising study conducted with college students evaluated the effect of a mobile advertisement's message length on the receiving mobile user's perceptions of informativeness, entertainment and consequent attitude toward the advertisement, as well as cultural, gender or age...

This paper investigates how the size and type of financial intermediaries affect the adoption of online banking features. One hundred and ten commercial banks, savings banks and credit unions of different sizes, and state coverage were studied. Service feature ranges from basic services such as...

This paper offers a brief review and analysis of potential indicators in stock index prediction and discusses the current state-of-the-art research. Forecasting price movements in the stock market has been a major challenge for common investors, businesses, brokers, and speculators. With the...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has observed as a powerful instrument for benchmarking the performance of various organisations when multiple variables are taken into account. The advantage of such an analysis is its competency to measure the efficiency of the firm in multifarious dimensions....

We investigate the drivers behind the use of alternative trading systems for a sample of self-directed online investors. The results show that the factors explicit transaction costs, trading times, awareness of alternative trading systems and degree of personal involvement in the transaction all...

This study found that the selected constructs, viz. product attributes, distribution and service and promotion have significant impact on consumer (choice) buying behaviour, while product, price, distribution (internal variables), customer care and brand reputation have significant impact over...

Unlike the private sector for which the adoption of e-procurement systems has widely been discussed, little is known about the motivations behind government agencies' introduction of e-procurement systems and the challenges they encounter in implementing them. This research addresses this gap...

The internet is a powerful communication device. It is no surprise then that companies are moving towards using the internet as a communication device for the distribution of financial information. Thus, making the internet a new voluntary disclosure medium. This paper explores this new...