Small-Firm Computing: Motivators and Inhibitors

Cragg, Paul B.; King, Malcolm

doi:10.2307/249509

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“…SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprise) found that managing successful IT projects was difficult due to the lack of optimum financial resources and a high initial set-up cost [37], while larger firms had an adequate financial and technical capability, and the flexibility to support IT project success. Reference [38] identifies that the major obstacles to IT adoption in small companies are a financial deficiency and insufficient levels of technical capability.…”

Section: Organisational Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of Risk Management Practices on IT Project Success

Pimchangthong

Boonjing

2017

Management and Production Engineering Review

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Successful management of an information technology (IT) project is the most desirable for all organisations and stakeholders. Many researchers elaborated that risk management is a key part of project management for any project size. Risk management is so critical because it provides project managers with a forward-looking view of both threats and opportunities to improve the project success. The objectives of this research are to explore organisational factors affecting IT project success and risk management practices influencing IT project success. Risk management practices include risk identification, risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring and control. The IT project success is measured by process performance and product performance. Data are collected from 200 project managers, IT managers, and IT analysts in IT firms through questionnaires and analysed using Independent Sample t-test, One-way ANOVA, and Multiple Linear Regression at the statistical significance level of 0.05. The results show that the differences in organisational types affect IT project success in all aspects, while the differences on organisational sizes affect IT project success in the aspect of product performance and total aspects. Risk identification and risk response planning influence the process performance and the total aspects of IT project success. Risk identification has the highest positive influence on product performance, followed closely by risk response, while risk analysis negatively influences product performance.

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Section: Organisational Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of Risk Management Practices on IT Project Success

Pimchangthong

Boonjing

2017

Management and Production Engineering Review

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“…Perceived benefit was also cited as a supporting factor for the adoption in the study of SME use of the Internet by Poon and Swatman (1997). Other influencing factors are business sector and nature (Poon and Swatman, 1999;Fillis et al, 2004;Windrum and Berranger, 2002), owner's enthusiasm and growth ambition (Cragg and King, 1993;Poon and Swatman, 1999;Fillis et al, 2004), and location (Windrum and Berranger, 2002). The role of the intermediary as a means of facilitating the diffusion of complex ICT has been observed by a number of other authors (Swan and Newell, 1995;Newall et al, 2000;Brown and Lockett, 2004).…”

Section: Hosted Applications Adoption and Complexitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Use of Hosted Enterprise Applications by SMEs: A Dual Market and User Perspective

Lockett¹,

Brown

Kaewkitipong³

2006

Electronic Markets

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This deliberately dual perspective paper seeks to deepen our understanding of the engagement of SMEs in hosted enterprise applications in the UK. The emergence and development of the ASP sector has attracted much interest and highly optimistic forecasts for revenues. The paper starts by considering ICT adoption by SMEs in general before reviewing the provision of hosted enterprise applications in the US and UK (market perspective). The study is extended by qualitative empirical data collected by semi-structured interviews with SME users of hosted enterprise applications (user perspective) and subsequent analysis in order to develop the key findings and conclusions. From an SME user perspective the key findings to emerge from the study include: i) confirmation that ICT infrastructure was no longer a barrier to adoption, ii) the pragmatic approach taken to security issues, iii) the use of both multiple information systems and multiple service providers, iv) the financial attractiveness of the rental model and v) the intention to continue or extend the use of hosted applications. It also highlights the opportunity for gaining competitive advantage by using hosted enterprise applications to reduce costs. There are very few empirical studies of hosted applications which take deliberately market and SME user perspectives -this paper makes an important contribution in this emerging field.

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“…Jeyaraj et al (2006) This grouping or something similar to it has been used by a number of researchers especially those studying the adoption of innovations by small firms (Premkumar and Roberts, 1999;Thong, 1999;Frambach et al, 1998;Frambach and Schillewaert, 2002;Al-Qirim, 2007;Lertwongsatien & Wongpinunwatan, 2003). Rogers, 1962;Daniel & Grimshaw,2002;Lockett &Littler, 1997;Premkumar & Roberts, 1999;Thong, 1999;Frambach et al, 1998;Sultan & Chan, 2000;Cragg &King, 1993;Black et. al, 2001;Al-Qirim, 2007;To and Ngai, 2006;Chong and Pervan, 2007;AlHajri and Tatnall, 2008. Relative advantage deals with how potential adopters perceive the innovation in comparison to the ideas that have been previously implemented (Rogers, 1962).…”

Section: Factors Influencing Innovation Adoptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…IT knowledge Premkumar & Roberts, 1999;Thong, 1999;Scupola, 2003;Cragg &King, 1993;Goode &Stevens, 2000, Palvia et al, 1994Lertwongsatien and Wongpinunwatan, 2003. IT knowledge in literature is used to refer to either the knowledge of the manager or the employees.…”

Section: Compatibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%