Purpose – Literature-identified website benchmarking (WB) approaches are generally time consuming, survey based, with little agreement on what and how to measure website components. The purpose of this paper is to establish a theoretical approach to WB. A comprehensive design science research...

Abstract We study attitudes to legality and the rule of law in Russia through analysis of interviews with legal and business professionals conducted in 2013–14, the high point of the stabilisation of the Russian economy and polity following the transition of the 1990s. The annexation of Crimea...

Many initiatives that create additional value in real estate transactions, derive from effective web presence and virtual searching facilities. Recent research takes a strategic view, and utilises a structured approach of translating the impact of the internet as an enabling technology on...

A pilot hybrid vertical/horizontal-portal for regionally-based real estate agents (RREAs) in Australia, denoted as ProjectLink (PL) is designed and developed. Duplication across multiple regions of Australia as a 'low-cost' , value-added solution is proposed. Furthermore an e-business medium is...

The Singaporean economy was affected by the Asian Financial Crisis, but its effects were masked by Singapore's approaches, and strategies, towards FDI and government investment, and to the external recognition of its robust, transparent financial system. the Asian Financial Crisis and increased...

A service value networks approach may be used to build a business on-line pathway solution-set capable of delivering near-real-time customer targeting. This approach engages the front-end aspects of the business. It moves the on-line business beyond Porter's competitiveness views of niche or...