The e-business arena is highly dynamic and characterised by continual evolution in technology, marketing concepts and effective business approaches. Business-to-business electronic commerce in particular is evolving, especially in relation to virtual supply chain management and electronic marketplaces. This paper uses a "content analysis" approach with over sixty articles being analysed. There ...

Inspired by the OSS values, an increasing number of different forms of open initiatives have come to the fore. In the context of eGovernment the notion of open government has met wide acceptance among nations and became closely related to one of its goals. Open government shares with OSS the notions of collaboration, participation and transparency and many actions towards OSS into eGovernment r...

Recommender systems are a vital tool that helps us to overcome the information overload problem. They are being used by most e-commerce web sites and attract the interest of a broad scientific community. A recommender system uses data on users’ past preferences to choose new items that might be appreciated by a given individual user. While many approaches to recommendation exist, the approach b...

Co-creation and open innovation is changing the context for virtual work and the role of culture in boundary spanning. Organizations that are opening up to embrace a more open way of innovating often meet heterogeneous stakeholders. Culture in IS research is often analyzed on an organizational level, however, boundary spanning in innovation work calls for theorizing culture on several levels. T...

Our understanding of the e-society should incorporate the case of at-home teleworking because of its implications for the use of ubiquitous ICTs in the home environment, work relations and gender issues. Rhetoric surrounding the benefits of telework impinge on promises of increased freedom, reduced burden, and ‘flexibility’ from an employees perspective. In order to establish the validity of su...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the minimum acceptable viewing angle (MIAVA) for different age groups while reading the Chinese e-book. Ninety subjects participated in this study. Their age ranged from 21 to 70 years, and they were divided into three age groups, i.e. young, middle, and old groups. Each subject was firstly asked to adjust personal preferred viewing distance. The min...

The concept of Free/Open Services (F/O-Services) emerges by bringing together services with Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). F/O-Services enable the creation of transparent composite services collectively and allow people and other services to access them. This paper extends the concept of F/O-Services beyond the level of open interfaces, analyzing the associated licensing interpretations and ...

Spatial Internet Marketplaces are attractive as a mechanism to enable spatial applications to be built drawing on remote services for supply of data and for data manipulation. They diier from the usual distributed systems by treating the services as published by providers on the Internet and bought by customers on an as-required basis. Design of a Spatial Internet Marketplace essentially seeks ...

The Webocracy project aims to empower citizens with innovative communication, access and polling system, supporting increased participation in democratic processes. One of the main project goals is to develop an open source web-based system called WEBOCRAT as a multi-channel communication platform supporting egovernment and e-democracy applications. Some of the WEBOCRAT modules are already avai...

The wide diffusion of open source software (OSS) is driving discussion among scholars on a set of issues, including its adoption by public administrations (PA). Previous works discussed a few factors that drive the decision to adopt OSS and did not address the potential benefits in terms of e-government that OSS may bring to PA. This paper fills these gaps. The analysis is based on the Emilia-R...