Out of the Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow through Web Services
Out of the Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow through Web Services
Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources: Summary of a Workshop
Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources: Summary of a Workshop
Mapping Hacks
On-demand business collaboration enablement with web services
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Web services and process management
A Formal Framework for Web Services Coordination
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
The Geospatial Web: How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)
Introduction to neogeography
Introduction to web services architecture
IBM Systems Journal
Developing XML web services with WebSphere studio application developer
IBM Systems Journal
Web services and flexible business processes: towards the adaptive enterprise
Information and Management
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This study aims to first analyse the functionality and the services of web map services, and then, to investigate the types of their exploitation that in turn transform the ways in which tourism firms design their business operations and business models. To that end, the paper first defines the concept of web map services and then it analyses their functionality by conducting a thorough literature review related to the field of web services, mapping services, Web 2.0 as well as their impact on the business operations. The paper then adapts Venkatraman's (1994) model on IT-induced transformation in order to identify and classify the different levels and types of exploitation of the functionality of web map services by tourism firms. Examples of web map services' applications from the tourism industry are used for analysing the concept, the business changes and the implementation challenges of each type-level of exploitation of web map services.