“…Previous studies (Hayton, 2005;Eren and Kocapinar, 2009;Jafaridehkordi et al, 2015;Nguyen et al, 2016) revealed that human capital characteristics of top managers have a pivotal role in formulating the entrepreneurial orientation of new high-technology enterprises because of their position as key members of the organization and decisionmaking agencies. Top management's knowledge and understanding of e-business benefits and capabilities are recognized as a powerful determinant for the intention to adopt such technologies (Saprikis and Vlachopoulou, 2012;Maditinos et al, 2014). Furthermore, the literature of IT-business alignment (Teo et al, 2006;Liang et al, 2007;Martín-Rojas et al, 2011) stresses the critical impact of top management on the alignment of e-business to organizational strategy and objectives.…”