Factors Affecting Intention to Adopt Cloud-Based ERP from a Comprehensive Approach

Abstract

To enhance the sustainability of business operations, enterprises have interests in enterprise resource planning (ERP) transitions from an existing on-premise method to a cloud-based system. This study conducts a comprehensive analysis using the technology-organization-environment, diffusion of innovation, and the model of innovation resistance frameworks. The empirical analysis shows that the factors of organizational culture, regulatory environment, relative advantage, trialability, and vendor lock-in all had a significant influence on the intention to adopt cloud-based ERP, while information and communications technology skill, complexity, observability, data security, and customization had no significant influence on the intention to adopt cloud-based ERP. This study’s findings provide meaningful guidance for companies that want to adopt cloud-based ERP, governments that support enterprise digitalization, and vendors who sell cloud-based ERP systems.

The cloud computing systems’ adoption in the higher education sector in Oman in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

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An Empirical Investigation of the Challenges of Cloud-Based ERP Adoption in Pakistani SMEs

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Determinants Of Cloud Accounting Adoption Intention: The T.O.E, D.O.I and T.A.M. Models

“…Rogers proposes five determinants that can affect the intention to adopt information technologies. These five determinants are believed to play a very important role in helping organizations to adopt new information technologies (Ahn & Ahn, 2020). The character of relative advantage is the most important determinant among these five ones in revealing the adoption of information technology in innovation research and its determinants (L. Tornatzky & Klein, 1982).…”

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