...Sara Fernández-López; Lucía Rey-Ares; Milagros Vivel-Búa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to adopt a behavioural approach to explain how the internet use influences stock market participation (SMP) decisions. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the literature on sociability and SMP...

... with innovation, and consequently, to adopt them faster than people with lower levels of education (Rogers, 2003). In general, the empirical evidence has confirmed this positive impact on patenting activity (Crescenzi et al., 2007 ; Tappeiner et al., 2008). Internet Technology adoption...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Communication technologies Internet Public libraries Trust "Knowledge transfer processes for different experience levels of knowledge recipients at an offshore technical support center'' Jihong ChenRobert J. McQueen...

.../methodology/approach The paper is empirically grounded in a research and development project with 50 participating families who received a PC, printer, and internet connection, as well as training, technical support, and information events over a period of two years. Both qualitative and quantitative data...

... technologies, and the consequences arising, with a view to making policy recommendations and ethical interventions. By focusing on technology as a moral actor with reach across and beyond the internet, the authors reveal the complex and diffuse nature of ethical responsibility and the consequent implications...

... Communication technologies Internet Information and communication technologies (ICTs) play a critical role in global development and venues such as libraries, telecentres, and cybercafés, which offer public access to ICT, and can make ICT accessible to broader sectors of the population. This broader...

... are applied directly and fast to the tasks for which the learning was initiated. Gregory Rose can be contacted at: grose@vancouver.wsu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Software engineering Learning organizations Internet Change management Knowledge management Information...

... members of virtual patient communities in the German‐speaking internet through an online survey to which 301 cancer patients responded. The data were analyzed with partial least square (PLS) structural equation modeling. Findings Virtual relationships for patients are established in VCs and play...

... that can be found through this specific website. Campbell's (2005) study of PlanetOut similarly points to the Janus quality of internet affinity portals in terms of the tensions between the member's need for privacy and the corporate need for consumer data. As has been noted generally, commercially...

...: This technology is revolutionising the way we work, the way we do business, the way we live our lives. Our job is to make sure it is not the preserve of an elite – but an Internet for the people (Blair, 2000). The UK government vision for combating the digital divide is outlined below: We are committed...

...Mike Cushman; Rachel McLean; Rebecca Hill; Paul Beynon‐Davies; Michael D. Williams Purpose This paper seeks to describe a deep investigation of the phenomenon of internet engagement amongst older people. The likelihood of internet engagement has been shown in previous work to rapidly decrease...

... in the e‐society. Yingqin Zheng can be contacted at: y.zheng2@lse.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Social inclusion Internet Personal health Information systems South Africa China The concern with social exclusion in the e‐society can be related to debates about...

... (IT) provides greater freedom from the constraints of direct interactions, physical appearance, and disabilities (Castells, 1998 ; Hiltz and Turoff, 1978 ; Hinds and Kiesler, 1995 ; Sproull and Kiesler, 1991 ; Turkle, 1995). The internet is full of anecdotes of people who created an online persona...

...Yong‐Chan Kim; Joo‐Young Jung; Sandra J. Ball‐Rokeach Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the unique effect of ethnicity on people's internet connectedness. Internet connectedness is a multi‐dimensional relationship that individuals form with the internet. Design/methodology...

...: reviewing Schutz's theory of the constitution of intersubjectivity in the lifeworld; extending Schutz's analysis to the acquisition of mutual knowledge in the online world; and applying the extended version of Schutz's theory to the booming blogosphere on the internet. Findings Schutz divided...

... Cybernetics Political science Technology led strategy Internet Mythic storytellers have crafted some of the most exciting and powerful tales in human history. These stories of gods and heroes explain the foundations of the world we live in. They attribute real phenomena to the actions and decisions...

... to competing pressures for efficiency and legitimacy. Findings Although efficiency is enabled by internet technologies that provide greater information transparency and access, public metals exchanges exhibited less ability to survive than private exchanges. It is argued that private exchanges survived...

... occasions in time (1996, 1999, and 2002), providing the basis for understanding the institutional context in which online newspapers were produced and modified over time. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Internet Newspapers Electronic publishing Scandinavia Over the last few...

... are the latest genre of internet communication to attain widespread popularity. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents the results of a quantitative content analysis of 203 randomly selected blogs, comparing the empirically observable features of the corpus with popular claims about the nature...

...Edgar A. Whitley © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Internet Governance Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace Milton L. MuellerThe MIT PressCambridge,MA2002327 pp.ISBN 0-262-13412-8$38.00...