Engagement of External Expertise in Information Systems Implementation

Thong, James Y.L.; Yap, Chun Wei; Raman, K. S.

doi:10.1080/07421222.1994.11518046

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“…Since SMEs often operate under severe time, financial, and expertise constraints (Cragg & King, 1993;Berry et al, 2006), they tend to control their limited funds for AIS implementation (Yap, 1989;Thong et al, 1994;Alasadi & Abdelrahim, 2007). Nevertheless, Thong (2001) argued that managers of SMEs have the power to commit resources toward the implementation of AIS.…”

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Factors Influencing AIS Effectiveness Among Manufacturing SMEs: Evidence From Malaysia

Ismail

2009

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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This study examines accounting information systems (AIS) effectiveness and its influence factors in the specific context of small and medium manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. The proposed model examines the impact of AIS sophistication, manager participation in AIS implementation, manager AIS knowledge, manager accounting knowledge, and effectiveness of external experts such as vendors, consultants, government agencies, and accounting firms on AIS effectiveness. We included 232 SMEs registered with the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) in testing the model. The results show that manager accounting knowledge, and the effectiveness of vendors and accounting firms significantly contributed to AIS effectiveness. Overall, this study suggests that managers of SMEs need to acquire sufficient accounting knowledge to better understand business information requirements. Second, SMEs should engage qualified vendors who have experience and understand unique characteristics of SME to overcome their lack of AIS knowledge. SMEs should also exploit their good relationship with accounting firms to help them implement effective AIS. Finally, it is important for SMEs to learn from AIS implementation so that opportunities can be recognized and priority can be given to those initiatives that support their information needs.

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Factors Influencing AIS Effectiveness Among Manufacturing SMEs: Evidence From Malaysia

Ismail

2009

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…The volume of date generated and processed by academic institutions may push for increased IT usage. According to Thong and Yap (1994) and Kimberly and Evanisko (1981), large amount of data and voluminous transactions are likely to acts as a push factor for the organization o adopt or use the technology that can help to streamline the operations and offer process efficiencies within the organization. Current research unveils that the more intensive the data handed by the organization or unit, the more it will adopt the internet technology.…”

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Non-business E-Commerce in Malaysia: An Investigation of Key Adoption

Igau¹

2011

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration

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Problem statement: Non-business EC is a relatively new research niche in the general ecommerce stream. Application of e-commerce by profit oriented organization already become bread and butter but still limited applied in non-business sectors such as academic institutions (as in the present study), non-profit organizations, religious organizations and government agencies. Nowadays e-commerce becomes crucially essential in reducing their expenses and improving their operations. Therefore, application of this new innovation should enhance to no non-business sectors to be livelier. Understanding the key factors of facilitating and adopting the e-commerce in non-business are still need to enrich in particularly within Malaysian context. A field survey was conducted to determine key factors that facilitate the adoption of non-business EC in Malaysian Universities. Approach: One main focus of IT implementation research has been to determine why people accept or reject new technology. The current research will explore why Non-business institutions will accept or reject ecommerce. Since e-commerce adoption decision is a strategic one, a comprehensive list of potential facilitators and non-facilitators for the strategic use of information technology was derived from past research. Thus factors used as the basis for collecting data from 65 schools, centers and units from 5 public universities in Kota Kinabalu and Kuala Lumpur. These data were factor-analyzed to determine the key underlying dimensions of facilitators. On the basis of the resulting 5 dimensions namely, relative advantage, network orientation, information efficiency, innovativeness and competitiveness, regression analysis was done to determine the impact of the 5 dimensions on adoption. Results: They suggest that relative advantage, network orientation and information efficiency are the most important facilitators to the used of e-commerce in non-business sectors. Inhibitors were not estimated eventually, as there were no non-users among the respondents. Conclusion: The results implies the non-business sectors should look into advantages, network orientation and information efficiency as a strategic based for implementing e-commerce in more effective manner to achieve their goals.

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“…It is considered as a central indicator to adopting a new technology in information systems innovation. The probability of adoption is enhanced when a business realizes a relative advantage in an innovation (Thong, Yap & Raman, 1994;Lee, 2004).  Uncertainty: referred to as "the extent to which the results of using an innovation are insecure (Fuchs, 2005).…”

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Cloud Computing Framework for Agile Development

Mwansa¹,

Mnkandla²

2014

STCC

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The emergence of cloud computing is influencing how businesses develop, re-engineer, and implement critical software applications. The cloud requires developers to elevate the importance of compliance with security policies, regulations and internal engineering standards in their software development life cycles. Cloud computing and agile development methodologies are new technologies that have come with new approaches in the way computing services are provisioned and development of quality software respectively. However, the synergy between the two is bonded with technical and non-technical challenges. In this paper, a conceptual framework is proposed to support the process of migration of South African small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) who are using agile software development methodologies to cloud computing environment. The framework is also analysed based on critical cloud computing adoption factors as recommended from previous studies on SMMEs adoption practices.

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Engagement of External Expertise in Information Systems Implementation

Cited by 136 publications

References 27 publications

Factors Influencing AIS Effectiveness Among Manufacturing SMEs: Evidence From Malaysia

Factors Influencing AIS Effectiveness Among Manufacturing SMEs: Evidence From Malaysia

Non-business E-Commerce in Malaysia: An Investigation of Key Adoption

Cloud Computing Framework for Agile Development

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