Environment and Policy Factors Shaping Global E-Commerce Diffusion: A Cross-Country Comparison

Gibbs, Jennifer L.; Kraemer, Kenneth L.; Dedrick, Jason

doi:10.1080/01972240309472

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“…Since wealth is a driver of investment one would expect GDP to play a role in the country's readiness and ability to adopt new communication technologies [79], [80], [81]. As established in the literature we also found increases in GDP to be associated with increases in Internet use.…”

Section: B Modeling Ict Penetration As a Function Of Democratic Tendsupporting

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A global empirical evaluation of new communication technology use and democratic tendency

Stodden

Meier

2009

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD)

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Section: B Modeling Ict Penetration As a Function Of Democratic Tendsupporting

confidence: 66%

A global empirical evaluation of new communication technology use and democratic tendency

Stodden

Meier

2009

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD)

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“…NOTES 1. Gibbs, Kraemer, and Dedrick (2003) provide a conceptual framework of factors relevant to a cross-country comparison of e-commerce diffusion.…”

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Which Internet Policy? Assessing Regional Initiatives in Spain

Jordana

Fernández

Sancho

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The Information Society

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We examine the effect of public policy on the growth of Internet use. Using a decentralized country-Spain-as an example, we compare the 17 Spanish regions to test different Internet policy designs, taking into account the quality and number of specific programs promoted by regional governments, as well as the presence or absence of strategic planning in each region. We treat the percentage of Internet users as a dependent variable to compare its diffusion in different territories. Our findings show that educational levels and economic differences explain about half of the variations observed. Furthermore, the regional policies play a significant role in explaining regional variations. We investigate which public policy instruments are more significant for the development of the Internet, and find that focused policy intervention and complex policy initiatives are more significant than other policy instruments in explaining the increase in the percentage of Internet users.

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“…The starting point for policy is the recognition that the digital divide between developed and developing countries is deeply embedded and closely correlated to GDP (e.g. Gibbs et al, 2002). The most recent World Development Reports shows that a person from a high-income country is over 22 times more likely to be an Internet user than a lowincome country; this is significant as 37% of the world's population lives in low-income countries.…”

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Priorities, policies and practice of e-government in a developing country context: ICT infrastructure and diffusion in Jamaica

Brown

Thompson

2011

European Journal of Information Systems

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This paper presents the findings of recent research into e-government policies and initiatives undertaken by the Government of Jamaica within the context of selective intervention facilitated through financial and technical assistance. In the specific context of a developing economy it highlights the use of infrastructure building and government intervention to aid diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT) and draws attention to the differences between developed and developing countries in their approach to e-government. A case of the Jamaica Customs Department is provided to exemplify the implementation of e-government in practice. Using institutional factor analysis for IT innovation the interaction of policy and practice is analysed. Four significant themes are identified that characterise the context for e-government policy, together with the associated institutional factors. The relative importance of these factors is demonstrated with Innovation Directive, Standards and Subsidy shown to be prime. These findings contribute to both institutional factor analysis for IT innovation and to ICT adoption theory, and together signal the importance of the inclusion of policy-based intervention in a future research agenda for e-government in a developing country context.

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Environment and Policy Factors Shaping Global E-Commerce Diffusion: A Cross-Country Comparison

Abstract: This article examines the key global, environmental and policy factors that act as determinants of e-commerce diffusion. It is based on systematic comparison of case studies from 10 countries

Cited by 301 publications

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A global empirical evaluation of new communication technology use and democratic tendency

A global empirical evaluation of new communication technology use and democratic tendency

Which Internet Policy? Assessing Regional Initiatives in Spain

Priorities, policies and practice of e-government in a developing country context: ICT infrastructure and diffusion in Jamaica

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