Beyond the learning frontier and the human capital development: New and old technological opportunities for the competence-based enterprises

With both increasing functionality and affordability, e-learning is being used extensively in organisations of all sizes. Despite this, surprisingly, little is known about current e-business usage, whether disparities exist between the utilisation of e-business by companies and universities, or about its impact on the general professional standing of the HR professionals. In order to help reduce this gap, we developed and administered a survey and gave structured interviews to assess and compare the specific areas of use and to introduce a taxonomy that provides a framework for further academic research, analysis and discussion in this area.