The latest World Press Trends report shows that business sentiment in the industry has taken a downturn, in a context where multiple challenges face news publishers around the world. Yet there are causes for optimism, as revenue diversification progresses and publishers double down on new...

The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate how interdependence of new product development (NPD) communications, i.e., new product introduction announcements preceded by past preannouncements affects firms’ security prices. Past research has focused on communication events...

Online platform businesses have thrived and created enormous economic value in recent decades. However, disintermediation, which occurs when platform users bypass the platform to complete transactions directly, has become the Achilles’ heel of the platform business model, hurting platforms'...

This paper aims to investigate two seminal market-scanning frameworks – the five-forces analysis and the PESTEL environmental scanning tool – to assess their readiness to anticipate market-shaping acts. Drawing on the market-shaping literature that conceptualizes markets as complex adaptive...

How can academic scholars come up with better research ideas, such that their research becomes even more important, relevant, and interesting? This paper seeks to infuse academic research idea generation with ideation (best) practices in companies. As a trigger for academic self-reflection, it...

The internet revolution has changed the scenario of the travel industry through the easily accessible of travel products to mass consumers through their virtual presence rather than physical. The online travel Portal (OTP) is also known as an Online Travel agent, E-travel agents and virtual...

Augmenting visitor satisfaction is one of the crucial roles of a destination and an essential for the improvement of infrastructure leading to enhanced attractiveness and competitive positioning of a tourist spot. Efficient management of a range of services needed by visitors in their stay at a...

This edition of WAN-IFRA’s annual flagship research and report reveals an industry challenged but optimistic about its business. It examines the results of publishers’ business in 2021, their forecasts for 2022 and beyond, and the trends and issues shaping the industry. Our research shows...

This study puts forward a variable clique overlap model for identifying information communities, or potentially overlapping subgroups of network actors among whom reinforced independent links ensure efficient communication. We posit that the intensity of communication between individuals in...

The marketplace, along with its price system, is the single most important institution in a western-style free enterprise economy. The ability of prices to adjust to changes in supply and demand conditions enables the market to function efficiently and lies behind the magical invisible hand...