Web sites of the Fortune 500 companies: facing customers through home pages
Information and Management
The emerging role of electronic marketplaces on the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Reducing buyer search costs: implications for electronic marketplaces
Management Science - Special issue: Frontier research on information systems and economics
Net worth: shaping markets when customers make the rules
Net worth: shaping markets when customers make the rules
E-business: roadmap for success
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The content and design of web sites: an empirical study
Information and Management
E-commerce and the information market
Communications of the ACM
Information Technology and Management
The utility business model and the future of computing services
IBM Systems Journal
eAirlines: strategic and tactical use of ICTs in the airline industry
Information and Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
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The traditional news industry is changing and transforming itself into a digital, online news industry. This paper analyses this phenomenon from the value chain and value creation perspectives and explores the creation of value by new intermediaries. An exploratory study has been conducted based on strategic informants, web content analysis of 56 companies' websites and 5 received questionnaires (of 24 web content aggregators contacted). Companies from USA, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, UK, and Switzerland have been analysed. The information gathered provided a knowledge base to describe the value chain of the industry, the main players of the sector, and its roles in the value chain activities. Furthermore, we could identify the Web Content Aggregators (WCAs) as new players that provide third part content to other companies, institutions and end-users. They mainly concentrate in the content packaging and the distribution stages of the value chain, and aggregate the supply and demand in the industry, collect, organize, and evaluate dispersed information, and they also provide infrastructure to other industry players. The four drivers [Amit, R., & Zott, C. (2001). Value creation in E-Business. Strategic Management Journal, 22, 493-520.] (efficiency, complementarities, lock-in, and novelty) of value creation model has been applied specifically to them. Limitations, managerial implications and preliminary conclusions are proposed.