“…Several studies have emphasized the leading role played by governments with regard to adoption of e‐business technologies in Asian countries (Gibbs et al ., ; Thatcher & Foster, ; Sarkar & El Sawy, ; Xu et al ., ; see also the literature review in the Appendix on IT use and adoption in China). At the same time, several authors claim that national cultural characteristics influence the adoption (Hempel & Kwong, ; van Everdingen & Waarts, ; Manske & Moon, ; Tan & Ouyang, ; Bagchi et al ., ; Tan et al ., ; Martinsons & Davison, ; Ge & Voß, ) as well as the type of e‐business systems (Hsiao, ; Martinsons, ; Marble & Lu, ; Westrup & Liu, ; Martinsons, ) in countries in which the Chinese culture is dominant. Based on this literature, our case findings might be explained in the following way.…”