An empirical investigation of the effects of firm characteristics on the propensity to adopt cloud computing

Loukis, Euripidis N.; Arvanitis, Spyros; Kyriakou, Niki

doi:10.1007/s10257-017-0338-y

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“…This study, like previous research, finds that three IT skills continue to be in the top five rankings regardless of whether or not firm size is a consideration:  spreadsheets (Dillon & Kruck, 2008;Chen et al, 2009;Welch et al, 2010;Cory & Pruske, 2012;Kearns, 2014;Lee et al, 2018)  Word Processing (Chen et al, 2009;Welch et al, 2010;Cory & Pruske, 2012)  Internet research (Welch et al, 2010;Cory & Pruske, 2012). This research's results also support previous findings that firm size is not a factor for Cloud Computing (Gupta et al, 2013;Seethamraju, 2015;Loukis et al, 2017). Note that Table 2 does not include Cloud Computing, and Cloud Computing ranks seventh and ninth, respectively, for SF and MLF respondents (Table 4).…”

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Topics for Your Undergraduate Accounting Information Systems (AIS) Course-An Exploratory Study of Information Technology (IT) Skills and Firm Size

Weisenfeld

Mathiyalakan

Heilman

2020

AIS Educator Journal

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Given the wide range of technologies that businesses employ, and the rapid changes in technology, it is important to assess periodically the critical IT skills students need to prepare them for the work environment. This study presents results from over 100 practicing accountants regarding the IT skills they feel are most important for an undergraduate AIS course. The top ten IT skills for small firm (SF) respondents, respectively, are: spreadsheets, Microsoft Word, Internet research, Internet, QuickBooks, ensuring privacy, Cloud Computing, preventing and responding to cybercrime, software security, and managing and retaining data. The top ten IT skills for medium-large firm (MLF) respondents, respectively, are: spreadsheets, Internet, Internet research, ensuring privacy, Microsoft Word, preventing and responding to cybercrime, managing and retaining data, file systems, Cloud Computing, and Business Intelligence Tools. While SF respondents perceive QuickBooks and software security are more important, respondents from MLF think file systems and Business Intelligence Tools are more important. When determining AIS course content it is important to include the most relevant IT skills, based on what practice thinks students need, and this study indicates firm size is a factor for some IT skills. Designers of undergraduate AIS courses, therefore, need to consider the importance of the IT skills in conjunction with the size of the firms that will employ their students when selecting topics for inclusion.

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Topics for Your Undergraduate Accounting Information Systems (AIS) Course-An Exploratory Study of Information Technology (IT) Skills and Firm Size

Weisenfeld

Mathiyalakan

Heilman

2020

AIS Educator Journal

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“…Though extensive empirical research has been conducted concerning the factors that affect the adoption of CC by firms (e.g. see [19]), quite limited empirical research has been conducted concerning the factors affecting the benefit firms obtain from the use of CC services, and in general the business value from CC.…”

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“…Though there is extensive empirical research on the factors affecting the adoption of CC (e.g. see [19]), quite limited is the empirical research that has been conducted on the factors affecting the benefits from CC. This research is quite necessary, because CC is a new paradigm of sourcing the ICT services required by firms for supporting their processes and activities, based on external providers, which is quite different from the previous 'on-premises' paradigm, based on internal ICT services provision.…”

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Contractual and Relational Governance, ICT Skills and Organization Adaptations, and Cloud Computing Benefits

Loukis

Kyriakou

2018

Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Cloud Computing (CC) has high potential to offer to firms important benefits, concerning both costs reduction, and in general efficiency improvements, as well as innovation facilitation and support. However, these benefits are not straightforward and automatically generated; their realization as well as their magnitude will depend on a variety of factors. Nevertheless, limited empirical research has been conducted in order to identify CC benefits' determinants. This paper contributes to filling this research gap. It empirically investigates the effects of a) the contractual and relational governance of firm's relationships with its CC services providers, and b) the adaptations of the skills of firm's ICT personnel, as well as its internal ICT organization, to this new CC paradigm, on the magnitude of CC benefits. Our study uses data collected through a questionnaire from 115 Greek firms using CC services. It has been concluded that all the above four examined factors impact positively the benefits firms obtain from CC; the effect of the adaptation of the skills of firm's ICT personnel is the strongest, followed by the effect of the relational governance.

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“…Given their vast and positive impacts, several ICTs are defined not only as innovations but also as general purpose technologies (computers, internet, for instance) (Brynjolfsson and Hitt, 2003;Basu and Fernald, 2007;Cardona, Kretschmer and Strobel, 2013), although complementary applications integrating the internal processes of the firms with the commercial system (such as einvoicing and e-commerce) are more vaguely conceptualised in literature. E-commerce applications, for instance, are commonly defined theoretically either as independent innovations (Bertschek and Fryges, 2002;Zhu et al, 2003;Zhu and Kraemer, 2005;Battisti and Stoneman, 2005;Hollenstein and Woerter, 2008), as a cluster of innovations or applications related to the internet (Wilson et al, 2008;Colombo et al, 2013) or as advanced computer networks over internet (Forman et al, 2012;Colombo et al, 2013;Gallego et al, 2014;Falk and Hagsten, 2015;Loukis et al, 2017).…”

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Use and intensity of electronic invoices in firms: The example of Sweden

Hagsten

Falk

2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Electronic (eÀ) invoices potentially enhance environmental sustainability in several stages from production of paper to its usage. This study investigates empirically to what extent a set of firm characteristics and external factors associate with the probability to send e-invoices and with the intensity of usage, based on a representative survey of approximately 1500 Swedish firms. An invoice is considered electronic when it is exchanged in an automated system between the buyer and the seller. The analysis includes firms with one employee or larger across all industries except, agriculture, fishery, forestry, public administration and defence. Descriptive statistics show that 42 per cent of the firms in 2016 send e-invoices. By use of a two-part model, estimation results reveal that both internal and external factors are associated with the e-invoice behaviour. The probability of adoption is significantly higher for firms with government sector clients and a large number of invoices. The intensity estimation exhibits a reverse pattern, where the number of e-invoices is most strongly associated with the invoice pattern. Another internal factor of importance for the extent of e-invoices is the level of labour productivity. Construction firms have the highest probability to adopt e-invoices and manufacturing firms scale-up the usage. Besides this, neither industry affiliation nor size-class is crucial. When size-class is estimated separately, it appears that medium-sized and large firms strongly associate their invoice adoption with type of client, while the extent of the activity is solely related to internal factors. For micro enterprises and small firms, kind of client is the most important aspect at all.

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An empirical investigation of the effects of firm characteristics on the propensity to adopt cloud computing

Cited by 30 publications

References 39 publications

Topics for Your Undergraduate Accounting Information Systems (AIS) Course-An Exploratory Study of Information Technology (IT) Skills and Firm Size

Topics for Your Undergraduate Accounting Information Systems (AIS) Course-An Exploratory Study of Information Technology (IT) Skills and Firm Size

Contractual and Relational Governance, ICT Skills and Organization Adaptations, and Cloud Computing Benefits

Use and intensity of electronic invoices in firms: The example of Sweden

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