ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to analyze feasible business analytics (BA) adoption initiatives in accounting and their potential antecedents and effects, according to experts and early adopters. BA solutions help professionals explore data and gain insights for decision making. Although there is a clear relationship between BA and accounting, there is a gap between the theory and its adoption in practice. The research is relevant to academia and the market because it presents the main antecedents, effects, uses, techniques, and data sources, as well as the characteristics of the task, technology, and individual that impact the fit between BA and accounting. The main antecedents of adoption and good practices in early adopter projects using BA are highlighted, reducing the theory-practice gap and bringing new elements to promote its adoption among professionals and organizations. A qualitative-exploratory study was conducted using semi-structured interviews with 20 professionals from different accounting areas. The results highlight the main BA usage initiatives: identifying improper transactions, analyzing larger volumes of data, and performing predictive analyses. Efficiency, quality, and improved decision making were the main effects of using BA. The feasibility of BA initiatives was analyzed using the task-technology fit (TTF) model and the antecedents of adoption were analyzed using the technology-organization-environment (TOE) model, identifying characteristics of the task, technology, and individual as well as technological, organizational, and environmental factors that increase the fit between BA and accounting. The study contributes to highlighting the barriers (regulation and data availability) that affect the adoption of BA and concludes that the purposes of use, the depth of adoption, and the effects differ according to the accounting area, as the main effects of the use of BA primarily impact the accounting area itself, followed by other stakeholders.

RESUMO O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar iniciativas de adoção de business analytics (BA) factíveis à contabilidade e seus potenciais antecedentes e efeitos, de acordo com especialistas e early adopters. As soluções de BA apoiam os profissionais na exploração de dados e na obtenção de insights para tomada de decisão. Embora haja uma relação evidente entre BA e contabilidade, há uma lacuna entre a teoria e sua adoção na prática. A pesquisa é relevante para a academia e o mercado, por apresentar principais antecedentes, efeitos, usos, técnicas e fontes de dados, além das características da tarefa, tecnologia e indivíduo que impactam o fit entre BA e contabilidade. Evidenciam-se os principais antecedentes de adoção e boas práticas dos projetos de uso de BA dos early adopters, diminuindo a lacuna teoria-prática e trazendo novos elementos para impulsionar sua adoção entre profissionais e organizações. Foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa-exploratória, operacionalizada por entrevistas semiestruturadas com 20 profissionais de áreas contábeis distintas. Os resultados evidenciam as principais iniciativas de uso de BA: identificação de transações indevidas, análise de maior volume de dados e análises preditivas. Eficiência, qualidade e melhora da tomada de decisão foram os principais efeitos do uso de BA. A factibilidade das iniciativas de BA foi analisada pelo modelo task-technology fit (TTF) e os antecedentes da adoção pelo modelo technology-organization-environment (TOE), identificando-se características da tarefa, tecnologia e indivíduo, bem como fatores tecnológicos, organizacionais e ambientais que aumentam o fit entre BA e contabilidade. Contribui-se para a evidenciação de barreiras (regulação e disponibilidade dos dados) que impactam a adoção de BA e a conclusão que as finalidades de uso, a profundidade da adoção e os efeitos diferem conforme a área contábil, uma vez que os principais efeitos do uso de BA impactam, primeiramente, a própria área contábil, em seguida, demais partes interessadas.

Resumo Objetivo: Este artigo examina a capacidade de inovação das empresas contábeis no mercado brasileiro, a partir do uso de tecnologias digitais, tendo como base as capacidades de desenvolvimento de tecnologia, operação, gerenciamento e transação. Metodologia: Realizaram-se entrevistas com o gestor principal das empresas e foram coletados documentos institucionais e documentos externos sobre o contexto nacional e internacional da inovação dos negócios contábeis. Resultados: A Contabilidade iniciou o caminho que tradicionalmente se percorre em direção à inovação digital, demonstrando a qualidade e o valor que as soluções relacionadas às tecnologias podem gerar ao serem exploradas nos negócios e, principalmente, nos processos. Esse incremento tecnológico provoca alterações nos modelos de negócio contábeis. Contribuições: Contribui-se para a construção do corpo teórico sobre inovação e Contabilidade, identificando que essa área está a caminho da inovação por utilizar novas tecnologias na criação de operações e no gerenciamento de transações. Constata-se que o processo de inovação e de transformação digital já se apresenta como um desafio real a ser gerenciado.

Abstract Purpose: This article examines the innovation capability of accounting firms in the Brazilian market, in their use of digital technologies, based on technology development, operation, management, and transaction capabilities. Design/methodology/approach: We carried out interviews with the main managers of the companies and collected institutional documents and external documents on the national and international context of accounting business innovation. Findings: Accounting has begun on the traditional path towards digital innovation, demonstrating the quality and value that technology-related solutions can generate when exploited in business and especially in processes. This increase in technology causes changes in accounting business models. Originality/value: The paper contributes to the theoretical body of work on innovation and accounting, identifying that this area is on the way towards innovation by using new technologies in the creation of operations and transaction management. It is clear that the process of innovation and digital transformation already presents a real challenge to be managed.

Abstract Purpose This paper aims to elaborate a set of characteristics that conceptualize and qualify a disruptive business model. Design/methodology/approach The literature on disruptive business models will be analyzed using the latent semantic analysis (LSA) technique, complemented by content analysis, to obtain a more precise qualification and conceptualization regarding disruptive business models. Findings The results found described concepts already described in the theory. However, such findings, highlighted by the LSA, bring new perspectives to the analysis of the disruptive business models, little discussed in the literature and which reveal important considerations to be made on this subject. Research limitations/implications It should be noted, about the technique used, a limitation on the choice of the number of singular values. For this to be a problem in the open literature, the authors tried to work not just with the cost-benefit ratio given the addition of each new dimension in the analysis, as well as a criterion of saturation of the terms presented. Practical implications The presentation of this set of characteristics can be used as a validation tool to identify if a business is or is not a disruptive business model by managers. Originality/value The originality of this paper is the achievement of a consolidated set of characteristics that conceptualize and qualify the disruptive business models by conducting an in-depth analysis of the literature on disruptive business models through the LSA technique, considering the difficulty of obtaining precise concepts on this subject in the literature.

Resumo Este estudo objetivou identificar as características de modelos de negócios inovadores que utilizam a blockchain. Através de uma pesquisa qualitativa e descritiva, buscamos, no banco de dados Crunshbase, as empresas que tiveram em sua descrição de atividade o termo Blockchain, obtendo um total de 810 empresas. Os dados obtidos foram tabulados em planilha do Excel e realizou-se coleta de informações adicionais nos sites das organizações. O processo de análise de dados utilizou a técnica de análise documental e análise de conteúdo. Os resultados nos permitiram identificar que a maioria das organizações foi fundada a partir de 2014 e estão localizadas na América do Norte. Em relação à área de atuação das organizações, observa-se que a maioria delas atua na área Financeira e Tecnológica. Além disso, 10 empresas já estavam em funcionamento antes da criação da tecnologia blockchain, ressaltando a característica de uma tecnologia disruptiva que é a readequação de empresas estabelecidas. Por fim, destaca-se contribuições relacionadas ao campo, ao identificar as principais áreas de atuação dos negócios que utilizam a blockchain, bem como revelando descrições importantes sobre essas empresas. Além de contribuições para a teoria, ao apresentar evidências empíricas de negócios atuantes com essa tecnologia e suas contribuições para as diversas áreas de negócios.

Abstract The goal is to identify the characteristics of innovative business models that use blockchain technology. Through a qualitative and descriptive research, we sought, in the Crunshbase database, the companies that had in their activity description the word Blockchain, obtaining a total of 810 companies. The data obtained were tabulated in Excel spreadsheet and we carried out a collection of additional information on the websites of the organizations. The process of data analysis used the technique of document analysis and content analysis. The results allowed us to identify that most organizations' foundation date from 2014 and are located in North America. Regarding the area of expertise of these organizations, it can be observed that most of them belong to financial and technology areas. Moreover, 10 companies were already in operation before the creation of blockchain technology, pointing out the characteristic of a disruptive technology, which is the readjustment of established companies. Finally, we highlight the contributions related to the field, by identifying the main areas of business that use blockchain technology, as well as revealing important descriptions about these companies. In addition to contributions to the theory, by presenting empirical evidences of active business with this technology and its contributions to the various areas.

Abstract Business Analytics leverages value from data, thus being an important tool for the decision-making process. However, the presence of data in different formats is a new challenge for analysis. Textual data has been drawing organizational attention as thousands of people express themselves daily in text, like the description of customer perceptions in the tourism and hospitality area. Despite the relevance of customer data in textual format to support decision making of hotel managers, its use is still modest, given the difficulty of analyzing and interpreting the large amounts of data. Our objective is to identify the main evaluation topics presented in online guest reviews and reveal changes throughout the years. We worked with 23,229 hotel reviews collected from TripAdvisor website through WebScrapping packages in R, and used a text mining approach (Latent Semantic Analysis) to analyze the data. This contributes with practical implications to hotel managers by demonstrating the applicability of text data and tools based on open-source solutions and by providing insights about the data and assisting in the decision-making process. This article also contributes in presenting a stepwise text analysis, including capturing, cleaning and formatting publicly available data for organizational specialists.