Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the way in which the insurance industry is facing the renewal of its regulatory framework with respect to the levels of solvency that insurance entities should maintain. This paper also addresses how technological initiatives in general, and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate differences between 46 countries, 25 of which are EU members, in their technological communication standards and technological efforts. Design/methodology/approach – Two indexes were developed. The first, labeled Index 1, measures the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the impact of emerging information technology (IT) on internal auditors' (IA) activities, and to examine whether the IT evaluations performed in Saudi organizations vary, based on evaluation objectives and organizational...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify e-skills shortages, gaps and mismatches in Europe, and the reasons behind these. In this light, the paper explores some key issues/aspects related to development of e-Skills, while attempting to provide some benchmarking tools by which...

Статья посвящена актуальным вопросам использования информационных технологий в управлении предприятиями. Согласно цели исследования проведен анализ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role that information and communication technologies (ICT) maturity plays in the achievement of global competitiveness at the country level. The paper investigates the socio-economic and technological factors that are most likely to be...

Purpose -The purpose of this study is to describe the experiences with the development and use of an agile component-based architecture for enabling the requirements for the transformation of financial services. Design/methodology/approach - The methodology used is a case study. Findings -The...

Purpose -New technologies have provided new tools we may use as finance professors to communicate with our students. Instant messaging (IM) has become a common communication tool in industry and among students. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of IM as a communication tool in...

Purpose - This purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the status of e-finance and discuss related issues and challenges. Provides data about growth of e-finance in the last decade. Introduces advances and innovations in e-finance and challenges facing the financial services and IT...

Purpose – Using information and communication technologies to deliver human resource services (also known as e-HRM) has become an important strategy for firms seeking to achieve a competitive advantage. A case-based study was carried out with the purpose of investigating how four of the most...