An empirical study of adoptors and non-adopters of the Internet in Singapore

Abstract

A postal survey was conducted to determine: the extent to which systems development methodologies are used in practice; the rating of their contribution to the development process, and the future trend in methodology adoption, whether the trend is towards increased usage or not. Among the main findings of the study were that 60 percent of the respondents were not using methodologies. Also, only 6 percent of respondents reported following a methodology rigorously. Finally, the forecast is not positive for methodology advocates: 79 percent of those not using a methodology indicated that they did not intend to adopt one.

Post-adoption behavior of users of Internet Service Providers

“…In marketing, demographic differences are typically treated as potential biasing variables and controlled for within the primary analysis. This suggests that demographics may be a useful tool for service providers in developing customer retention strategies (Hoffman et al 1996;Teo and Tan 1998).…”

Empirical Evidence Concerning Smes Corporate Websites: Explaining Factors, Strategies and Reporting

“…Most works find significant positive correlations (Liu et al, 1997;Ashbaugh, Johnstone and Warfield, 1999;Larrán and Giner, 2002;Teo and Tan, 1998;EllisChadwick, Doherty and Hart, 2002;Teo and Yujun, 2004) with regard to the fact that the larger the size of a company, the greater the likelihood that it will decide to implant a Website, even when in most cases they have used samples of stockmarket quoted companies.…”

Consumer behaviour in the Thai Internet Service Providers

“…The Internet alsoprovided a robust and fault-tolerant computer network for the United States military (Teo and Tan, 1998). This pioneering network was known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency network or ARPANET, and slowly appeared in university and government research laboratories owing to its several advantages (Simsim, 2011).…”

“…This pioneering network was known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency network or ARPANET, and slowly appeared in university and government research laboratories owing to its several advantages (Simsim, 2011). These advantages included its ability to let individuals exchange electronic mail, tap into remote databases and operate supercomputers remotely (Teo and Tan, 1998). Teo and Tan (1998) state that the greatest improvement was the communications protocol that gave the Internet its name -"the Internet Protocol" -since it allowed numerous computer networks to link up and act as one.…”

“…These advantages included its ability to let individuals exchange electronic mail, tap into remote databases and operate supercomputers remotely (Teo and Tan, 1998). Teo and Tan (1998) state that the greatest improvement was the communications protocol that gave the Internet its name -"the Internet Protocol" -since it allowed numerous computer networks to link up and act as one. Further developments led to the commercialisation of the Internet as an international network in the mid-1990s (Simsim, 2011).…”