nowadays, world wide web has become a popular medium to search information, business, trading and so on. various organizations and companies are also employing the web in order to introduce their products or services around the world. therefore e-commerce or electronic commerce is formed. e-commerce is any type of business or commercial transaction that involves the transfer of information acro...

background: governance is one of the main functions of health research system (hrs) that consist of four essential elements such as setting up evaluation system. the goal of this study was to introduce a new web based research evaluation model in iran. methods: based on main elements of governance, research indicators have been clarified and with cooperation of technical team, appropriate softw...

The 20th Century was a milestone of evolutionary jumps in critical changes the business world. Technological innovations have been sparkled into our daily lives and triggered rise intelligent systems integrating production systems, supply chains, customs authorities, b2b, c2c commercial activities, etc. boost change occurred within companies by push technological systems. internet made this jum...

Communication among companies and between clients and companies has been revolutionized by the Internet, e.g., b2b market places, as well as new ways of collaboration like virtual companies. Many systems with holistic and individualized service, sales and marketing concepts are available today. In this paper we give an overview of the basic concepts of office communication, groupware, workflow ...

The purpose of this Study study is to identify and rank the development drivers of knowledge-based, technology-driven businesses. This work is conducted as a case study in Fars Province Science and Technology Park. It is a descriptive survey in terms of purpose since a part of its data is collected through questionnaires and is of surveying type because it describes the existing conditions. The...

T he essence of the information technology revolution and, in particular, the World Wide Web is the opportunity afforded companies to choose how they interact with their customers. The Web allows companies to build better relationships with customers than has been previously possible in the offline world. By combining the abilities to respond directly to customer requests and to provide the cus...

The importance of identifying competitors and of avoiding “competitive blind spots” (Zajac and Bazerman 1991) in marketplace has been well emphasized in research and practice (Walker et al. 2005). However, identification of competitors is non-trivial and requires active monitoring of a focal company’s competitive environment. The difficulty in such identification is amplified manifold when ther...

This study on the evaluation of the Web sites of companies in the GCC (Gulf Council Countries) and attempts to answer the question of whether security and privacy but, also, accessibility and availability issues are addressed by the developers locally. A total number of 129 web sites from companies in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates were evaluated based on the WSEI...

This paper presents the results of a six-year longitudinal survey of the web sites of S&P 500 companies. Using nine design and functional measures developed based on prior research, we find that S&P 500 companies have experienced significant transformation of their web presence, signified by the increasing levels of information and interactivity. We find a continuing trend toward increasing num...

Organizations providing enhanced electronic services to their customers have exponentially increased in past years. The benefits of web-portals to companies and to customers are well evident and are considered an IT artifact manifested in entry points to Internet-based information presentation and exchange by communities of common interest. Despite much research done on the benefits of web port...