An Assessment Method of the Integrated E-Commerce Readiness for Construction Organizations in Developing Countries

Journal of Global Information Technology Management

Zhang

Sun

et al. 2014

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This study explores the factors that impact the initial adoption and institutionalization of e-procurement in construction firms in developing countries. It proposes a research model based on an interaction perspective that is a combination of the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework and the theory of reasoned action (TRA). Data collected from 112 construction businesses in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2012 were analyzed using partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings show that the government plays an extremely important role in decisionmaking of both initial adoption and institutionalization of e-procurement in individual construction enterprises. Furthermore, the determinants of initial adoption of e-procurement are very different from those of institutionalization of the technology. The experience of the initial adoption of e-procurement is found not to have any significant effect on the decision of subsequent implementation of the technology. Theoretical implications, practical implications, and limitations of the research are discussed and suggestions for future research are made.

Section: Information Technology Infrastructure (Iti)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Initial Adoption Versus Institutionalization of E-Procurement in Construction Firms: An Empirical Investigation in Vietnam

Journal of Global Information Technology Management

Zhang

Sun

et al. 2014

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“…The literature on e-commerce empirically reveals that e-commerce adoption brings potentially benefits to SMEs (Tran et al, 2013). E-commerce in general bridges the physical and time-dependent distance between suppliers and customers, enhances the efficiency and flexibility of production and operation, reduces market entry barriers, and increases the competitiveness of markets.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study on E-Commerce Adoption in SMEs Under the Institutional Perspective

Miao

International Journal of E-Adoption

2018

This article investigates and discusses the institutional factors influencing decisions of e-commerce adoption in Saudi small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from the temporal view. This article has been conducted in two phases: a full survey in 2013 and the follow-up targeted interviews in 2016. The analysis results demonstrated that there is a clear difference between initial e-commerce adoption and institutionalization in SMEs in terms of institutional predictors. When e-commerce was at its infant stage, governmental support and well-defined legal and regulations system were instrumental and served as mainly institutional forces to encourage firms to adopt e-commerce. As time went on and e-commerce became more business-driven, these effects become less important, even insignificant; instead of these, perceived market forces and perceived social awareness of e-commerce emerges as critical contributions to push SMEs to engage in e-commerce more sophisticatedly.

Challenges in managing green building projects from the view of the contractors: An exploratory study in Vietnam

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

2020

Success of green building projects is significantly dependent on the capacity of all stakeholders. In order to improve the success of such projects, this study seeks to gain a better and deeper understanding of the critical challenges facing the contractors in executing green building projects. The methodological framework used consists of a literature review and a questionnaire survey of green construction experts in Vietnam. The data collected from 163 expert responses was used to conduct the test of Kendall’s coefficient of concordance, Chi square tests, ANOVA and mean ranking analysis. The results indicate that the top five challenges facing the contractors in executing green building projects are “lack of legal regulations and technical codes, standards, guidelines on green building”, “more difficult to early establish a competent, integrated, multidisciplinary green project team”, “more difficult for comprehending the green specifications”, “more difficulty in the selection of competent subcontractors in providing green building services”, and “shortage of reliable green building methods, materials, technologies, and equipments in the market.” The findings bring out valuable implications for the government, the industry practitioners and stakeholders in improving the success of the green building projects in the future. Given the limited empirical studies on issues influencing the success of delivering green building projects, the present study also makes a contribution to the body of knowledge.