We examine the relationship between the board's IT expertise and firm innovation. Using a novel hand–collected dataset from biographies of directors, we find that the board's IT expertise has a positive influence on firm innovation – measured in terms of R&D expenditures and patents...

Over the past three decades, the reliance on sophisticated spreadsheets for budgeting has emerged as a standard in most organizations (Hesse and Hesse Scerno, 2009). Despite these technological advancements, rich empirical evidence documents that technologically induced ‘spreadsheet errors'...

Blockchain is a form of distributed ledger technology. While it has grown in prominence, its full potential and possible downsides are not fully understood yet, especially with respect to Operations Management (OM). This article fills this gap. After briefly reviewing the technical foundations,...

Big Data has become increasingly important to multiple facets of the accounting profession, but accountants have little understanding of the steps necessary to convert Big Data into useful information. This limited understanding creates a gap between what accountants can do and what accountants...

The author recommends review of marketing, advertising and communication strategies, which may have excessive self-praise. Braggadocio or excessive self-praise causes negative marketing and unnecessary burden on the society in the form of increased costs. The author recommends use of such tools...

Theoretical research on internal capital markets suggests an important role for internal information quality in the capital allocation process within conglomerates. Direct empirical evidence, however, has been sparse, largely because informational frictions inside firms are difficult for...

This study focuses on the correlation between intellectual capital and web trends of the index bist-30, which holds the top 30 companies in Istanbul Stock Market (BIST). The trends of web sites and companies are collected separately via web tools. Also, intellectual capital is studied and...

The purpose of this study was to determine the motives, the brakes and the ways of using Social Networking Sites (SNS) based on dimensional models that describe national cultural values explaining and predicting behavior. The study used a qualitative method, we conducted face-to-face in-depth...

Health care costs in the United States make up a larger proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) than in any other developed country and continue to rise. We examine whether the use of consistent metrics in costing information systems across hospitals provides one avenue to reduce these costs....

Temelji planiranja informacijskih sustava i obrada podataka je rad internih propitivanja iz programa cjeloživotnog obrazovanja. Nastao je u okolnostima sumiranja znanstvenog doprinosa na izgradnji informacijskih sustava, i kvantifikacije brojnih činilaca od utjecaja na razvoj, izgradnju,...