Adoption of electronic commerce in China and Malaysia: a comparative study

Ooi, Keng‐Boon; Sim, Jia Jia; Chong, Alain Yee‐Loong; Lin, Bin

doi:10.1504/eg.2012.048001

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“…For example, frequent power disruption was a barrier in both the countries, but the lack of technical knowhow was not. A study compared the adoption of e-commerce in China and Malaysia (Ooi et al, 2012) and showed that organizational readiness, innovation attributes, and cultural factors significantly influenced the e-commerce adoption in China, but the cultural factors were not as significant for ecommerce adoption in Malaysia.…”

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Factors influencing electronic commerce adoption in developing countries: The case of Tanzania

Makame

Kang

Park

2014

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Electronic commerce is rapidly replacing the old ways of doing business. Although many studies have been conducted on the adoption of various forms of e-commerce, there are few on this topic in African countries; in particular, there is no research on Tanzania. Therefore, this paper analyzes the factors determining e-commerce and their impact on its adoption in Tanzania. This paper extends the technology acceptance model (TAM) to an empirical study analyzing the factors influencing e-commerce adoption in Tanzania. A survey involving 111 respondents including Tanzanian government officers was conducted, and structural equation modeling was used to assess the model for the influence of three new factors: national policy initiatives, technology infrastructure, and trust in e-commerce adoption. The results show that technology infrastructure is an important factor in e-commerce adoption, and national policy initiatives are important in building online trust and improving technology infrastructure in Tanzania. Therefore, government policy makers need to encourage the presence of good technology infrastructure and build trust in e-commerce through national policy initiatives such as e-commerce promotion. Limitations of this paper are that the respondents are limited to people who have access to the Internet and some might not have enough knowledge about e-commerce. Further, the survey is conducted only in Tanzania; therefore, the results may differ in other African countries.

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Section: E-commerce Adoptionmentioning

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Factors influencing electronic commerce adoption in developing countries: The case of Tanzania

Makame

Kang

Park

2014

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Exploring diffusion of innovation adoption attributes: a cross-disciplinary literature analysis

Kapoor

Dwivedi

Williams

2014

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Share repurchases in the South African mining sector

Vermeulen

2014

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The purpose of this study was to obtain an overview of the share repurchase activities of companies listed in the mining sector of the JSE, and to determine the extent to which detail information of these share repurchases are available on public data sources such as SENS (Securities Exchange News Service -the office of the JSE that distributes all relevant company information electronically). The study focused on a period of 11 years, from July 1999 until the 2010 financial year-end. The annual reports of a sample of companies were analysed to determine the number of shares, as well as the monetary value of the shares that were repurchased. The SENS announcements were then scrutinised to determine the number of share repurchases recorded in the annual reports that were announced to shareholders. From a total of 55 share repurchase transactions, only 23 transactions were announced on SENS. The repurchase transactions were then further analysed in terms of the method used (general or specific repurchase), the repurchasing entity (company, subsidiary or share trust) and the subsequent sale of treasury shares from the subsidiary to the holding company. It was concluded that the majority of share repurchases are announced. However, if only companies with primary listings on the JSE are considered, 60% of share repurchases are not announced. The use of the general and specific methods are more or less equal for companies with primary listings on the JSE, but for companies with secondary listings on the JSE, 98% of repurchases are general. Of the specific share repurchases of companies with primary listings about 46% are not announced, but of the general share repurchases about 77% are not announced. Since share repurchases made by companies with secondary listings on the JSE were significant in terms of numbers and value, it changed the total statistics substantially from what it would be if only companies with primary listing on the JSE were considered. Even though about 85% of total share repurchases are announced, studies on share repurchases cannot rely on SENS announcements only, since this would exclude a significant portion of the repurchase activities of companies with primary listings on the JSE (60%), and therefore lead to unreliable results.

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Adoption of electronic commerce in China and Malaysia: a comparative study

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Factors influencing electronic commerce adoption in developing countries: The case of Tanzania

Factors influencing electronic commerce adoption in developing countries: The case of Tanzania

Exploring diffusion of innovation adoption attributes: a cross-disciplinary literature analysis

Share repurchases in the South African mining sector

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