Cooperativism 2.0: internet presence and e-commerce development in the olive catalan cooperatives

Nowadays the role of ICT in business management is a subject of growing interest to both academics and professionals. Web 2.0 has emerged as an important source of innovation that contributes to organizational performance and improving the firm’s competitiveness in the agricultural sector. However,...

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Autores principales: Eduard Cristóbal Fransi, Yolanda Montegut Salla, Natalia Daries Ramon
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e2da576b094f45a0980c238165e24a9a2021-11-12T13:14:36ZCooperativism 2.0: internet presence and e-commerce development in the olive catalan cooperatives1135-66181885-803110.5209/REVE.54926https://doaj.org/article/e2da576b094f45a0980c238165e24a9a2017-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/REVE/article/view/54926https://doaj.org/toc/1135-6618https://doaj.org/toc/1885-8031Nowadays the role of ICT in business management is a subject of growing interest to both academics and professionals. Web 2.0 has emerged as an important source of innovation that contributes to organizational performance and improving the firm’s competitiveness in the agricultural sector. However, evidence has been found that reveal the difficulties for the entry of these technologies in agribusinesses and their application for effective e-commerce. According to the above, this research seeks to know whether the Web sites of the olive cooperatives facilitate effective communication with their target audiences and are tailored to electronic commerce. In order to do this, it is proposed first of all, a model for the analysis of Web pages oil cooperatives, based on the content analysis technique, considering the dimensions of Information, Communication, e-Commerce and Additional Functions. Secondly the eMICA methodology (Extended Model of Internet Commerce Adoption) applies, to identify opportunities arising from the use of Web 2.0 tools and improve the deficiencies detected for a more competitive management. From the results we can draw that much it remains margin for improvement in the adoption of electronic commerce by Catalan cooperatives in the olive sector. The fact that only 5.8% of websites have reached the stage 3 in the eMica model indicates the low level of functional maturity reached by cooperatives in the development of their Web sites. The results of analysis of web content corroborate these statements.Eduard Cristóbal FransiYolanda Montegut SallaNatalia Daries RamonAECOOP Escuela de Estudios Cooperativosarticleclave: cooperativascomercio electrónicosector oleícolaanálisis contenido webmodelo eMICAWeb 2.0.Economics as a scienceHB71-74ENESRevista de Estudios Cooperativos, Vol 124, Iss 0, Pp 47-73 (2017)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
ES
topic clave: cooperativas
comercio electrónico
sector oleícola
análisis contenido web
modelo eMICA
Web 2.0.
Economics as a science
HB71-74
spellingShingle clave: cooperativas
comercio electrónico
sector oleícola
análisis contenido web
modelo eMICA
Web 2.0.
Economics as a science
HB71-74
Eduard Cristóbal Fransi
Yolanda Montegut Salla
Natalia Daries Ramon
Cooperativism 2.0: internet presence and e-commerce development in the olive catalan cooperatives
description Nowadays the role of ICT in business management is a subject of growing interest to both academics and professionals. Web 2.0 has emerged as an important source of innovation that contributes to organizational performance and improving the firm’s competitiveness in the agricultural sector. However, evidence has been found that reveal the difficulties for the entry of these technologies in agribusinesses and their application for effective e-commerce. According to the above, this research seeks to know whether the Web sites of the olive cooperatives facilitate effective communication with their target audiences and are tailored to electronic commerce. In order to do this, it is proposed first of all, a model for the analysis of Web pages oil cooperatives, based on the content analysis technique, considering the dimensions of Information, Communication, e-Commerce and Additional Functions. Secondly the eMICA methodology (Extended Model of Internet Commerce Adoption) applies, to identify opportunities arising from the use of Web 2.0 tools and improve the deficiencies detected for a more competitive management. From the results we can draw that much it remains margin for improvement in the adoption of electronic commerce by Catalan cooperatives in the olive sector. The fact that only 5.8% of websites have reached the stage 3 in the eMica model indicates the low level of functional maturity reached by cooperatives in the development of their Web sites. The results of analysis of web content corroborate these statements.
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author Eduard Cristóbal Fransi
Yolanda Montegut Salla
Natalia Daries Ramon
author_facet Eduard Cristóbal Fransi
Yolanda Montegut Salla
Natalia Daries Ramon
author_sort Eduard Cristóbal Fransi
title Cooperativism 2.0: internet presence and e-commerce development in the olive catalan cooperatives
title_short Cooperativism 2.0: internet presence and e-commerce development in the olive catalan cooperatives
title_full Cooperativism 2.0: internet presence and e-commerce development in the olive catalan cooperatives
title_fullStr Cooperativism 2.0: internet presence and e-commerce development in the olive catalan cooperatives
title_full_unstemmed Cooperativism 2.0: internet presence and e-commerce development in the olive catalan cooperatives
title_sort cooperativism 2.0: internet presence and e-commerce development in the olive catalan cooperatives
publisher AECOOP Escuela de Estudios Cooperativos
publishDate 2017
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