Stan Karanasios

Stan Karanasios completed his PhD at the School of Information Systems at Victoria University, Australia in the area of small business and ICT adoption in developing countries. His research involved performing field research in Ecuador and Malaysia and developing recommendations for successful ICT adoption. He has also participated in a United Nations programme at the Palais Des Nations in Geneva in 2006 and published a number of journal articles. In addition to his PhD, Stan has worked for Monash University and RMIT University School of Business IT in the areas of e-government, rural development, small business innovation and capacity building. Recently, Stan joined the AIMTech Research Group at Leeds University in England as a Research Fellow and is working on a project that examines innovation in UK Police Forces and research surrounding future evolutions of wireless technologies in Europe. His interests include innovation in public and private organisations, ICTs and development, and the effective use of ICTs in small business.

Publications

A Classification of Mobile Tourism Applications
A Classification of Mobile Tourism Applications
Stan Karanasios, Stephen Burgess, Carmine Sellitto. © 2012. 13 pages.
This chapter introduces mobile technology and discusses its emergence in the tourism industry. As has been the case with other Information Communication Technologies (ICTs)...
Effective Web Presence Solutions for Small Businesses: Strategies for Successful Implementation
Effective Web Presence Solutions for Small Businesses: Strategies for Successful Implementation
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 352 pages.
Over the past several years, a great deal of research has been devoted to the use of information technology by small businesses. One technological tool now used to boost company...
Introduction
Introduction
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 26 pages.
Over the last decade there has been a great deal of research into the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in small businesses. More recently, this research...
Web Presence Lessons for Small Businesses
Web Presence Lessons for Small Businesses
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 24 pages.
Whilst writing this book it has become apparent to us that small businesses face numerous challenges and issues when they are considering their Web presence. In fact, although we...
Readiness for a Web Presence
Readiness for a Web Presence
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 26 pages.
The new global economy has resulted in the availability of unprecedented opportunities for small business. ICTs in particular have contributed to the underpinning of a...
Business Strategy and Planning
Business Strategy and Planning
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 34 pages.
In the previous chapter we highlighted the importance of planning for an effective Web presence. In fact, the existence of a disciplined planning approach is seen as an enabler...
Web Presence Strategy and Content
Web Presence Strategy and Content
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 28 pages.
The purpose of this chapter is to discuss how a small business decides upon its Web presence strategy and then determines what features will make up the content of its Web...
Web Presence Hosting
Web Presence Hosting
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 27 pages.
In earlier chapters we discussed the need to link Web presence strategy with anticipated small business direction and motivations - where this strategy would invariably be...
Website Design
Website Design
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 29 pages.
This is the most technical of the chapters in this book. It is centred on Website design and is the only chapter in the book where we exclusively refer to Website rather than Web...
Web Presence Promotion
Web Presence Promotion
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 26 pages.
There are literally millions of businesses with a Web presence on the Web and more and more being added every day, all competing to attract customers. Building a Website without...
Web Presence Governance
Web Presence Governance
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 30 pages.
The initial idea behind this chapter was to expand on the issue of security, predominantly in relation to ensuring that a small business operator would be confident that not only...
Evaluating Web Presence Success
Evaluating Web Presence Success
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 21 pages.
This chapter examines the notion of how the success of a small business Web presence can be assessed. In doing so, there is initially a discussion of how a small business could...
A Look at the Future
A Look at the Future
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 27 pages.
This chapter serves to raise an awareness of some of the more cutting edge Internet innovations and applications that may become viable and useful to the small business operator...
What Led Us Here?
What Led Us Here?
Stephen Burgess, Carmine Carmine Sellitto, Stan Karanasios. © 2009. 20 pages.
This Appendix provides a brief overview of our PhDs - all of which involved research into small business adoption and use of ICT and Internet technologies. In effect, we felt...