scholarly journals The determinants of the investor relations information in the Malaysian companies’ website

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fathilatul Zakimi Abdul Hamid ◽  
MD Suhaimi MD Salleh
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
The Other ◽  
Company Size ◽  
Investor Relations ◽  
Corporate Website ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Information And Communication

The main objective of this study is to extend the prior research in Investor relations information and communication through World Wide Web, by looking into the variation of investor information located at the Malaysian corporate website to the factors thought to influence the disclosure level. This study revealed that company size and industry classification was found significantly has positive association with the existence of investor information in the corporate website. On the other hand, for profitability and foreign ownership variables, result show insignificant relationship. The descriptive result may indicate that Malaysian companies may not take the opportunity to communicate with investors and stakeholders via internet, and choose the present traditional communication as what required by law. Another explanation is that, Malaysian companies may be complacent with the current traditional IR communications with institutional investors and funds managers in which this group are indeed familiar with how these Malaysian firms are operating.

Patterns of Searching for Information on the World Wide Web: A Pilot Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 92 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1091-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuhiko Fujihara ◽  
Asako Miura
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Task Type ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Search Domain

The influences of task type on search of the World Wide Web using search engines without limitation of search domain were investigated. 9 graduate and undergraduate students studying psychology (1 woman and 8 men, M age = 25.0 yr., SD = 2.1) participated. Their performance to manipulate the search engines on a closed task with only one answer were compared with their performance on an open task with several possible answers. Analysis showed that the number of actions was larger for the closed task ( M = 91) than for the open task ( M = 46.1). Behaviors such as selection of keywords (averages were 7.9% of all actions for the closed task and 16.7% for the open task) and pressing of the browser's back button (averages were 40.3% of all actions for the closed task and 29.6% for the open task) were also different. On the other hand, behaviors such as selection of hyperlinks, pressing of the home button, and number of browsed pages were similar for both tasks. Search behaviors were influenced by task type when the students searched for information without limitation placed on the information sources.

Minorities and the Digital Divide

2008 ◽  
pp. 3281-3295
Author(s):  
Larry P. Kvasny
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
E Mail

Information and communication technologies (ICT) such as the World Wide Web, e-mail, and computers have become an integral part of America’s entertainment, communication, and information culture. Since the mid-1990s, ICT has become prevalent in middle- and upper-class American households. Companies and government agencies are increasingly offering products, services, and information online. Educational institutions are integrating ICT in their curriculum and are offering courses from a distance.

The Web as a Learning Environment for Kids

2000 ◽  
pp. 166-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherif Kamel
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication

The Internet and the World Wide Web are demonstrating the growing influence of information and communication technologies in various aspects of the economy. Regardless of the barriers of time and distance, newly introduced information highways are linking the world countries together, their societies and cultures contributing effectively to globalization. One of the growing trends in societal development and growth is investment in people. Therefore, the learning process is a priority issue that information and communication technologies are serving trying to upgrade and leverage human resources to become more competitive as we approach the 21st century with all its challenges and opportunities. This chapter covers an initiative that was launched in Egypt in 1997 that targets the investment of Egypt’s young generation, the kids of the present and the leaders of the future. This initiative is part of a national plan that aims at leveraging the capacities of Egypt’s human resources. The focus of the chapter will be the learning process, the Internet and the presence of the first Egyptian Web site for children on the Internet “Little Horus.” With the introduction of the Internet since 1993 in Egypt, today there are around 250,000 Internet subscribers, among which are a growing community of schools, teachers and children. As the Internet grows in magnitude and capacity, perceived to reach over one million subscribers in the coming five years with an estimated 20 percent under the age of 16, the Internet and the World Wide Web could play an active role in the education process in Egypt. The chapter, therefore, will demonstrate the “Little Horus” initiative, the steps that were achieved so far, the plan for the future and the building blocks that represented the critical success factors for the realization of this initiative with relatively modest resources.

Banner Blindness: The Irony of Attention Grabbing on the World Wide Web

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 463-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Panero Benway
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Other ◽  
Controlled Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Web Designers ◽  
Do So ◽  
Banner Blindness

Web designers attempt to draw attention to important links by making them distinctive. However, when users are asked to find specific items, they often overlook these distinctive banners. The irony of “banner blindness” is that the user who really wants to find the information the designer has highlighted is not likely to do so. In the experiments reported here, banner blindness is reproduced under controlled conditions. Banners located higher on the page and therefore further from the other page links were missed more often than banners located lower on the page and closer to the other links. Banners were missed more often when located on pages containing links to categories than when located on pages with links to specific items. Users saw banners hardly at all when clicking a banner was not required to accomplish a task.

The Impact of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to the Greek Educational Community

2010 ◽  
pp. 222-240
Author(s):  
Paraskevi Mentzelou ◽  
Dimitrios Drogidis
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Education System ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Educational Community ◽  
National Education ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Current Impact

The aims of Greek education system is to give to students the ability to develop the required skills, character and values that will enable them to contribute to the prosperity of Greek Society, Greek Nation and humanity. The fulfillments of these aims require a dynamic educational system with the potential of incessant adjustment emanated from the interaction between national education and societal needs and demands. Living in an information and knowledge society where quality is its goal, Greek education system has to be enriched with all the characteristics and means that specify educational quality. In a framework, where educational changes are unavoidable due to the entrance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and especially the use of World Wide Web in Greek education system, an effort to present the current impact to Greek Educational community is attempted.Specifically in this chapter there is a reference on ways, efforts, stages and methods that have been set for the application of ICT to Greek education system and presents effects, issues, trends and utilization of World Wide Web by the Greek educational community.

Measuring and Mapping the World Wide Web through Web Hyperlinks

2009 ◽  
pp. 887-893
Author(s):  
Mario A. Maggioni ◽  
Mike Thelwall ◽  
Teodora Erika Uberti
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Potential Interactions ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Web

The Internet is one of the newest and most powerful media that enables the transmission of digital information and communication across the world, although there is still a digital divide between and within countries for its availability, access, and use. To a certain extent, the level and rate of Web diffusion reflects its nature as a complex structure subject to positive network externalities and to an exponential number of potential interactions among individuals using the Internet. In addition, the Web is a network that evolves dynamically over time, and hence it is important to define its nature, its main characteristics, and its potential.

Minorities and the Digital Divide

2005 ◽  
pp. 1955-1959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynette Kvasny ◽  
Fay Cobb Payton
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
E Mail

Information and communication technologies (ICT) such as the World Wide Web, e-mail, and computers have become an integral part of America’s entertainment, communication, and information culture. Since the mid-1990s, ICT has become prevalent in middle- and upper-class American households. Companies and government agencies are increasingly offering products, services, and information online. Educational institutions are integrating ICT in their curriculum and are offering courses from a distance.

Information and Communication Component of Modern Entrepreneurship

2012 ◽  
pp. 30-39
Author(s):  
G. Olevsky
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Small Business ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication

The extent of involvement of small business to the World Wide Web depends not only on the degree of activity of the entrepreneurs themselves, but also on the level of development of a virtual market space. Statistics show that in the European Union, for example, businessmen from countries just emerging from the inertia of the machine production are still fairly sluggish in the development of ICT. In the context of the problems of small business in general and of the European entrepreneurship, in particular, it can be argued that virtually oriented entrepreneurs need now a strong support at both the national and supra-national levels.

scholarly journals Mapping an audience-centric World Wide Web: A departure from hyperlink analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 1331-1348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harsh Taneja
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Web Usage ◽  
Hyperlink Analysis

This article argues that maps of the Web’s structure based solely on technical infrastructure such as hyperlinks may bear little resemblance to maps based on Web usage, as cultural factors drive the latter to a larger extent. To test this thesis, the study constructs two network maps of 1000 globally most popular Web domains, one based on hyperlinks and the other using an “audience-centric” approach with ties based on shared audience traffic between these domains. Analyses of the two networks reveal that unlike the centralized structure of the hyperlink network with few dominant “core” Websites, the audience network is more decentralized and clustered to a larger extent along geo-linguistic lines.

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