Information technology adoption by small business: An empirical study

Thong, James Y.L.; Yap, Chun Wei

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-34982-4_12

Cited by 39 publications

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“…Kwon and Zmud (1987) found the following factors influencing IT adoption: top management support, size, quality of IS, user involvement, product champion, and resources. These findings are also endorsed by recent literature tackling SMEs (Prernkumar & Roberts, 1999; Thong, 1999;Thong & Yap, 1996). Damanpour (1991) found that organisational innovativeness (adopting innovations) correlated positively with business specialisation and external (publishing and media) and internal (from peers, employees, friends, etc.)…”

Section: Organisational Factorssupporting

confidence: 83%

E-Commerce Adoption in Small Businesses: Cases from New Zealand

Al-Qirim

2007

Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research

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Electronic commerce (EC) adoption in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is confronted with diferent diflculties. This is due to reasons relating to the SME's structure and to their surrounding environment. This research is interested in identifying factors influencing EC adoption and success in SMEs. A review of the technological innovation adoption (TIA) research in SMEs provides useful insights into factors influencing adoption. Thus, this research attempted to achieve two main objectives. Initially, this research examined the prior TIA factors in order to check for their relevance to EC adoption research in SMEs and accordingly, developed an adoption framework made of fiifteen factors. Secondly, this research attempted to examine the impact of the developed framework on EC adoption in three New Zealand (NZ) SMEs. The research findings and the emerging implications suggested the weakness of the EC phenomenon in NZ SMEs and pointed to a unique perspective concerning the adoption context of the cases. These issues are discussed in this research raising diferent theoretical, methodological and professional contributions and implications.

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Section: Organisational Factorssupporting

confidence: 83%

E-Commerce Adoption in Small Businesses: Cases from New Zealand

Al-Qirim

2007

Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research

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“…Kwon and Zmud (1987) found the following as the main factors that influence IT adoption: top management support, size, quality of IS, user involvement, product champion, and resources. These findings are also endorsed by recent literature tackling SMEs (Premkumar and Roberts, 1999;Thong 1999;Thong and Yap, 1996). Damanpour (1991) found that organisational innovativeness (adopting innovations) correlated positively with business specialisation and external (publishing and media) and internal (from peers, employees, friends, etc.)…”

Section: Organisational Contextsupporting

confidence: 69%

Innovation Theories in Retrospect

Al-Qirim

2003

Organizational Information Systems in the Context of Globalization

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Abstract:A review of the technological innovation adoption literature on small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) provides useful insights into factors influencing innovation adoption but points to the need to introduce more determinants of innovation adoption to SMEs research. This research is interested in identifying 'these factors and hence. introducing more potential determinants to electronic commerce (EC) adoption research in SMEs. Therefore. this research attempts to extend the technological innovation theories to EC adoption research in SMEs by identifying potential constructs and factors from these theories and then checking their face validity using three case studies in New Zealand. This research endeavours to shortlist and discuss the most important determinants of EC adoption and to eliminate the least relevant ones.

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“…Prior research supports the inclusion of four determinants of innovation adoption: the characteristics of the innovation, the characteristics of the organisation, the environmental context, and the characteristics of the individual decision makers [23,28,29,38,39]. Innovation characteristics are compatibility, complexity, relative advantage, trialability, and observability; of these, relative advantage, compatibility, and complexity have been found to significantly influence the adoption of systems technologies.…”

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confidence: 92%