Organisational determinants of information technology adoption and implementation in SMEs: The case of family and cooperative firms

The Adoption of Web-Based Marketing in the Travel and Tourism Industry: An Empirical Investigation in Egypt

“…Schillewaert et al (2005) found that supervisors have an important effect on the adoption behaviour of their subordinates in their study on IT adoption by sales force. Thus in line with previous literature results (Bengtsson et al, 2007;Bruque and Moyano, 2007) and with the hypothesis proposed in chapter four, there is evidence that top management support will be positively related to the degree of web adoption.…”

“…Table 3.4 provides an illustration of the most commonly researched organizational factors. Malhotra and Singh, 2007;Hong and Zhu, 2006;Bayo-Moriones and Lera-Lopez, 2007;Bruque and Moyano, 2007;Tan et al, 2007;Bengtsson et al , 2007;Fabiani et al, 2005;Harrison and Waite, 2005;Salavou et al, 2004;Premkumar &Roberts,1999;Scupola,2003;Drury& Farhoomand, 1999;Yao et. al, 2002Yao et.…”

“…Many empirical studies showed that size is one of the important factors affecting the adoption of innovations showing a significant positive relation indicating that the larger the organization and hence the more the resources that it possesses, the more likely it is to adopt an innovation (Malhotra and Singh, 2007;Bayo-Moriones and Lera-Lopez, 2007;Bruque and Moyano, 2007;Tan et al, 2007;Fabiani et al, 2005). Other studies however, showed a non significant relationship between size and innovation adoption (Scupola, 2003;Frambach et al,1998;Premkumar and Roberts, 1999).…”

Measuring the performance of service delivery Systems: with application to software industry and banking in India

“…The study has found that there is a negative impact on business productivity due to lack of sufficient IT user employees (Southern & Tilley, 2000). Performance of service system depends upon many factors, namely, level of IT service quality, customer attitude towards IT usage, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency (Bruque & Moyano, 2007). Thus, it can be hypothesized as follows:…”

Narratives of an Outsourced Information Systems Failure in a Small Enterprise

“…financial, material and knowledge) than large organizations (Welsh et al 1981). This can be noticed in the absence of an IS function in SMEs, but also in the lower level of IT adoption (Antlova 2009;Bruque et al 2007). Nor is there a clear and comprehensive vision on what information systems could mean within these organizations (Cragg et al 1993;Huang et al 2010).…”