The Changing Role of Middle-Men Infomediaries

2011 ◽  
pp. 269-280
Author(s):  
Mirella Lahteenmaki ◽  
Markku Tinnila
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Customer Information ◽  
New Type ◽  
Changing Role

Intermediaries and especially information-intensive infomediaries have been hailed as winners of the new electronic economy. The need for infomediaries arises from the reorganization of several markets as a result of the Internet. The main claim of emerging e-business companies during the hype at the turn of the millennium was shortening of the value chains. This meant bypassing middle-men with a direct contact to end-customers, in many cases, consumers. However, the millions of Web sites failed to attract customers, simply because they could not be found among all the others. The solution to this problem was the reintroduction of middle-men actors; in this case, a new type of player, the infomediary, focusing on gathering, organizing, and utilizing essential customer information. The infomediary maximizes the value of information by helping clients to locate relevant products and services based on their individual needs and wants or on their personal profiles. In this chapter, we intend to provide a typology of infomediaries, their roles, and value creation models, and demonstrate infomediary evolution by analyzing exemplary cases.

Toward a theory on workplaces for smart workers

Facilities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 298-315
Author(s):  
Luisa Errichiello ◽  
Tommasina Pianese
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Type ◽  
Smart Working ◽  
Research Propositions

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the main features of smart work centers (SWCs) and show how these innovative offices would support the implementation of smart working and related changes in workspaces (“bricks”), technologies (“bytes”) and organizational practices (“behaviors”). Design/methodology/approach In this study, scientific literature is combined with white papers and business reports and visits to 14 workplaces, including offices designed as SWCs, co-working spaces, one telecenter, one accelerator and one fab lab. Primary data were collected through interviews with managers and users and non-participant observation, whereas secondary data included web-sites, brochures, presentations, press releases and official documents. Findings The authors developed research propositions about how the design of spaces and the availability of technology within SWCs would support the “bricks” and “bytes” levers of smart working. More importantly, the authors assumed that this new type of workplace would sustain changes in employees’ behaviors and managers’ practices, thus helping to overcome several challenges traditionally associated with remote working. Research limitations/implications The exploratory nature of the research only provides preliminary information about the role of SWCs within smart working programs. Additional qualitative and quantitative empirical investigation is required. Practical implications This study provides valuable knowledge about how the design of corporate offices can be leveraged to sustain the implementation of smart working. Originality/value This study advances knowledge on workplaces by focusing on an innovative design of traditional offices (SWC). It also lays the foundations for future investigation aimed at testing the developed propositions.

The Entrepreneurial University: Evidence of the Changing Role of Universities in Modern Russia

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Williams ◽  
Alexey Kluev
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Managerial Competencies ◽  
New Type ◽  
Changing Role

This paper examines the evolution of the entrepreneurial function of Russia's leading universities: the study is based on a conceptualization of a university's entrepreneurial development pathway developed by the OECD in 2009. The data on entrepreneurship development were collected in 2012 through a survey of technology transfer and innovation development managers of 18 National Research Universities. The primary data were complemented by desktop analysis of the strategy development documents of the universities surveyed. The results suggest that in the period studied, 2008–2012, a new type of university, the entrepreneurial university, has emerged in Russia. However, these entrepreneurial universities are facing serious challenges in the implementation of an entrepreneurial, innovation-oriented mission due to the lack of managerial competencies and inadequate infrastructure development. The paper has significant theoretical and practical implications in shedding light on the development of the entrepreneurial university in Russia, where the process is still in its infancy. The authors depict a trajectory of entrepreneurial transformation in and barriers to this process that, it is argued, university executives and policy makers should take into consideration.

The changing role of global value chains in CO2 emission intensity in 2000–2014

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 105053
Author(s):  
Danyang Zhang ◽  
Hui Wang ◽  
Andreas Löschel ◽  
Peng Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Emission Intensity ◽  
Co2 Emission ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Co2 Emission Intensity ◽  
Changing Role

A Community Web Site Initiative

2011 ◽  
pp. 114-132
Author(s):  
Heather Fulford
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Web Site ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Internet Adoption ◽  
Village Community ◽  
Online Business ◽  
The Village

This chapter reports on a study investigating a community Web site project operating in a UK village community. The aim of the study is to determine the impacts the online business directory component of this community Web site is having on the small businesses in the village, including consideration of the benefits they are deriving from their participation in the directory, the problems they have encountered through their participation, and the effects their involvement is having on their wider Internet adoption strategy and decisions. The findings highlight the value of community Web sites for small businesses, both for those that have already adopted various Internet applications into their operations, as well as for non-adopters of the Internet. It is suggested that existing discussions of small business approaches to Internet adoption might usefully be extended to incorporate the role of community Web sites.

The changing role of community networks in providing citizen access to the Internet

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Keenan ◽  
David Mitchell Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Community Networks ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Changing Role

Visual Communication in the Social and Cultural Internet Reality

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
M. Ryabova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Communication ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Reality

The article touches interrelated complex of problems characterizing visual communication in the digital space of modern society. The idea of forming of visual culture with a special mental constitution is being actualized. It is revealed that visual communication is a key phenomenon of the social and cultural reality of the Internet. The collision of verbal and visual that is exposed to changes in perception between the subject and the other is considered taking into account its specific qualities. If you look at the representational turn as a phenomenon of cultural consciousness opening in the space of the Internet, its quixotic duality could be noticed. The author believes that the conceptual discourse of visualization reveals new meanings and ideas, both in the thinking of some individual (as a part) and in the space of a multicode universe as a whole. It is concluded that an increasing role of visual communication in the perception of the world at all levels leads to a new type of personality.

scholarly journals The Role Of ICT And The Internet In The Development Of Franchise Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzana Stefanović ◽  
Milica Stanković
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
On Line

AbstractFranchising is a business format which is becoming a global phenomenon in the contemporary business. Franchise systems extensively use modern information and communication technology (ICT) to enhance communication among franchisors and franchisees, and to provide interaction with end users. The aim of the paper is to highlight the importance of using the modern technology in franchise systems globally and need for more intensive use of ICT in our country and in neighboring countries, based on the comparative analysis of using the ICT and Internet in developed and less developed economies. The research was conducted through a comprehensive on-line analysis of franchisors’ web sites. In this paper, it is analyzed whether there is a connection between the franchisors and franchisees linking through web site and the number of given franchise. Correlation analysis showed a statistically significant strong positive correlation between the use of the web site for linking franchisors and their franchisees and the number of franchise units. It can be concluded that less use of modern technology and the Internet in developing countries affects the slower expansion of the franchise units network than in developed countries where the use of ICT and the Internet is at a much higher level.

scholarly journals Memes as the Phenomenon of Modern Digital Culture

wisdom ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna VITIUK ◽  
Olena POLISHCHUK ◽  
Nataliia KOVTUN ◽  
Volodymyr FED
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Information Product ◽  
New Type ◽  
Special Information ◽  
Artistic Images ◽  
Symbolic Production

The article analyzes an Internet meme as the newest information product of the society and a result of its intellectual and artistic practices. The analysis of the role of the Internet memes, created by means of the popular artistic images modification in the modern digital culture is made. Such methods as semiotic and hermeneutic analysis of the Internet memes are used in the research work. The authors seek to explore the reasons for the popularity of memes in the processes of symbolic production and exchange in contemporary society and the modern digital culture, which is the purpose of this study. We consider that Internet meme created by using and modifying artistic images is a new phenomenon in human public life and new type of communication. As a hypothesis, a distinctive feature of the Internet meme is the surprise and laughter it causes in the “man of the Internet”. The main result of this article is the analysis the role of Internet memes in the newest information space and their specific features as a special information product of the modern digital culture. The authors draw attention to the popularity of Internet memes caused by an increase in information chaos in the modern symbolic production and exchange and, therefore, a person’s confusion when meeting a large number of information.

Novel Ways to Acquire Designer Benzodiazepines: A Case Report and Discussion of the Changing Role of the Internet

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 625-629
Author(s):  
Anna P. Shapiro ◽  
Travis S. Krew ◽  
Mohsen Vazirian ◽  
Jason Jerry ◽  
Christopher Sola
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Designer Benzodiazepines

Polarizing Indian political Discourse and Rising role of New Media: A study on Web Sites Content of Indian News Media

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1and2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjani Kumar Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
News Stories

Internet based New Media have been changing paradigms of News-Media and News-concept itself in the recent past. Now, with the combination of streaming video and faster 3G internet connections in India, the internet based New Media has become the fastest way to find news stories. The internet based New Media appears to differ from other mass media from the point of degree of niche targeting of political information-oriented Web-sites. India has been witnessing the increasing role of Internet media over a decade into political awareness among masses. During elections (Pre & Post) period, all major parties utilize the new media in campaigns and publicity as they use blog sites, emails and a lot of news writings through public relations firms streamed via internet based websites of all major print and electronic media. A small political update gets streamed instantly on web pages of newspapers and television channels and public get to know it within seconds. Our this research study focuses upon the increasing role of new media into political dialogues or political communication between political leaders and public who use the new media or masses. Indian media has witnessed a sea-change in media scenario since 2000 year. Be it newspaper, magazine or television news channels or radio channels, every news media now have their own news websites on internet or live video streaming or live channels on internet or e-papers or websites i.e. dot.com and audience members now find it easy to watch or read those newspapers or magazines or television channels on internet and their laptop or computer systems because all media form is now being converged at one point- technology i.e. internet. So, in the period of convergent media, political groups, parties or political communities have to be one step ahead to connect public or voters.

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