Communication plays a crucial role in influencing various aspects of our social life. However, communication has more often than not been distorted by unequal opportunities to initiate and sustain it. Such a condition has been criticized by Habermas who argues for an ideal speech situation. It...

We begin by examining the Internet-based electronic market of books, CD’s, cattle and flowers in an attempt to understand some prerequisites of electronic commerce. Books and CD’s are near ideal goods to be bought via the Internet - their characteristics can be easily captured by electronic...

This paper investigates links between entrepreneurial orientation, commitment to the Internet and export performance in small and medium sized firms. The central argument is that entrepreneurs are more likely to use the Internet to develop export market opportunities, and to have better export...

The rapid diffusion of the Internet has considerable potential for enhancing the way people connect with each other, the root of social capital. However, the more the Internet is used for building social capital the greater will the impact be on those whose access and/or usage is curtailed. It...

The Internet has a great importance on the changing business process in travel industry. This study aims at analyzing the importance, advantages, reasons and frequencies of the Internet usage in travel industry. To gather data, a questionnaire was given to the travel agencies which aremembers of...

Twenty-five years ago the business theorists at the University of Uppsala in Sweden assigned knowledge a key role in their explanation of firms’ internationalisation. Firms’ learning – or, acquisition of knowledge - about foreign markets was pointed out as being determining not only the...

We extend Portes et al. (2001) by introducing the Internet as a variable, and we test the model empirically by using cross-country panel data on portfolio flows between the United States and other countries from 1990 to 2008. Asymmetric information accounts for the strong negative relationship...

We investigate the effects of the rise of the Internet as an additional mass medium on news consumption patterns and political attitudes. We use Swedish survey data from 2002 to 2007, the period during which online news media emerged. We find that broadband access is associated with online media...

Given the increasing popularity of the Internet as a medium to convey advertising messages, limited empirical research has been published concerning Internet consumers' attitudes to advertising on the Internet. This paper investigates consumer attitudes to Internet advertising, and specifically...