The use of webometrics for financial performance analysis and financial position indicators: Exploratory study of different economic sectors in the united states [L’utilisation de la webométrie dans l’analyse des indicateurs de performance et de la position financière de l’entreprise: Une analyse exploratoire dans divers secteurs économiques des États-Unis] [El empleo de la Webmetría para el análisis de los indicadores de desempeño y posición financier de la empresa: Un análisis exploratorio en diversos sectores económicos de los Estados Unidos]

Authors

E.R. Frías, Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Universidad de Granada, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, Spain
L. Vaughan
L.R. Ariza

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Volume

25

Journal

Innovar

First Page

99

URL with Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.15446/innovar.v25n56.48993

Last Page

111

Abstract

Through the development of the Internet over the past two decades, a new discipline that allows the study of the Web from a quantitative point of view has arisen: webometrics. Applying webometrics techniques to management studies, points to the possible existence of a relationship between the number of inlinks that a corporate website receives, and certain economic and financial variables. Bearing in mind that the emerging evidence found is limited to companies from the technological sector, that indeed by its own nature has a strong presence on the Web, this exploratory study provides an extension in the analysis of webometrics to various economic sectors in the United States, confirming the existence of a significant relationship between the exposed variables, and thus opening new possibilities for research in the field of management by using Weblink information. © 2014, Innovar. All rights reserved.