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.