Internet Browser Configuration for Presentations

The increased use of the Internet and the World Wide Web in presentations requires that techniques must be developed to ensure service standards of performance, consistency, flexibility, availability, and reliability of the presentation. Since operation of the network and the visited web site is often outside of the control of the presenter, other approaches must be developed. This paper looks at the configuration and use of a web browser to address these issues

Have the Transformational Information Technologies Really Transformed the Academia?

The Internet and the World Wide Web are often referred to as transformational information technologies (Jarvenpaa and Ives, 1996). With the advent and rapid growth of these technologies, the business landscape is being redrawn through the shrinking of space and time, and exploding global competition. While a number of studies have been initiated in recent years to research into different facets of electronic commerce (EC), very few studies have been undertaken to examine the impact of these transformational information technologies on the academia who are among the early users

An Exploratory Study of Web-Based Electronic Commerce Applications

This study explores the use of the Web in electronic commerce (EC) applications and proposes a framework for classifying such applications. The framework is based on three widely used models of organizations that identify application categories. The ability of each of these models to classify thirty common EC applications was then examined. The Value Chain model provided the best schema and is used as a basis for the proposed framework. This new framework was evaluated with the observed EC applications from a random sample of Fortune 500 firms. The results of this classification process are presented along with an industry analysis of the observations. The analysis suggests that adoption of particular EC applications can be explained both by the nature of the industry and the nature of the application. The framework and tests suggest fruitful avenues for future research. In particular, testing a broader set of firms and refinement of the methodology would be advantageous