Challenges of Industry 4.0 Technology Adoption for SMEs: The Case of Japan

Prause, Martin

doi:10.3390/su11205807

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“…Marketing has moved from a strategy of concentrating on a small person who uses a product or service to a stage of adopting a single marketing success plan to draw the attention of the entire market which has bought a better way of building effective promotional strategies. (Amirkhanpour et al, 2014;Prause, 2019). SMEs who possess the requirements to establish a DMD culture are likely to engage more with mobile marketing (Hong et al, 2011;Smutkupt et al, 2010).…”

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“…The DMD must be one capable of improving our process and delivery (M12). HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00580-1 ARTICLE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS | (2020) 7:90 | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00580-1 Several studies (Xu et al, 2007;TAL, 2018;Samad et al, 2018;Prause, 2019) have found that service delivery is a major element of any successful business. The quality of services rendered by new technology such as the creation of new or improve customers' benefits and enable efficient service delivery to move potential customers to actual adopters (Eze et al, 2018).…”

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Critical factors influencing the adoption of digital marketing devices by service-oriented micro-businesses in Nigeria: A thematic analysis approach

Eze

Chinedu-Eze

Okike

et al. 2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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This paper examines critical success factors shaping the adoption of digital marketing devices (DMD) by micro-businesses. The study adopted a qualitative approach. Both unstructured and semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 26 micro-businesses drawn purposefully from the online database and underpinned by technology, organisation and environment (TOE) framework. This helped to unravel 14 critical success factors influencing the adoption of DMD by micro-businesses in Nigeria. These factors include functional capability, adaptive capacity and expandability which are related to technology context. Collective understanding, degree of partnership and diversity of information are linked to the organisation context while the level of training, quality of service delivery, customer fulfilment and intense competition are associated with environmental context. The study expanded the TOE framework by unravelling the impact expectancy context which is associated with factors, such as budget, business expansion, diversity and return on investment. This study will be of importance to academics and practitioners because it provides further awareness into DMD adoption framework, factors critical to the DMD adoption and may assist in reducing the number of resources spent in search of information aimed at helping DMD adoption by micro-businesses.

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Critical factors influencing the adoption of digital marketing devices by service-oriented micro-businesses in Nigeria: A thematic analysis approach

Eze

Chinedu-Eze

Okike

et al. 2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…In the context of Tunisia, there are very few studies found using the concept of MI approach for measuring productivity changes across various sectors. Two studies were identified focusing on the evaluation of productivity changes across the Tunisian schools and educational institutions [39][40][41][42][43]. Zrelli and Belloumi [44] used MI for investigating the impact of environmental strategies on the Tunisian manufacturing industry during 1994-2008 by using data from 26 industries and found an average increase of 1.5% a year.…”

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Malmquist Indexes of Productivity Change in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Zrelli

Tlili

2020

Sustainability

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This research aims to investigate the extent and nature of productivity growth in manufacturing industries using nonparametric frontier techniques. In order to decompose the total factor productivity (TFP) into technical efficiency change and technological change we use the output-oriented Malmquist productivity index method for 34 Tunisian manufacturing industries over the period 2002–2016. The results indicated that TFP has witnessed an average growth of two percent over the period 2002–2016. The productivity growth identified was attributed to the improvements in the technology (or frontier-shift) rather than improvements or changes in the efficiency.

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“…Several studies agreed SMEs will adopt new technology based on several factors [10,11] which will be discussed further in the next few paragraphs. For example, many technology adoption studies [12][13][14] believe that the adoption originally inborn from the organization.…”

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A Review of Cloud-Based ERP Systems in SMEs

Salim

Malaysia²,

Jaffar³

2020

IJIE

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The adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) could offer significant benefits in terms of managing the resources and support business function. However, the traditional ERP systems are quite expensive and have complex procedures for the adoption especially for SMEs. With the introduction of cloud-based ERP systems that have similar functionalities with traditional ERP, SMEs are now able to adopt this system. However, the adoption of cloud ERP remains low and question arise on how to encourage SMEs to adopt this system. Drawing from management and Information Systems literature, this study proposes and conceptual framework for cloud ERP adoption among SMEs. Using archival analysis approach and technology-push and demand-pull as the theoretical background, this research has come out with six main themes namely: firm qualities, internal pressure, external pressure, technology features, organizational readiness and external support. This paper will give significant benefits to ERP vendors to understand their potential buyer’s behaviour towards the adoption of cloud ERP.

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Challenges of Industry 4.0 Technology Adoption for SMEs: The Case of Japan

Cited by 145 publications

References 33 publications

Critical factors influencing the adoption of digital marketing devices by service-oriented micro-businesses in Nigeria: A thematic analysis approach

Critical factors influencing the adoption of digital marketing devices by service-oriented micro-businesses in Nigeria: A thematic analysis approach

Malmquist Indexes of Productivity Change in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

A Review of Cloud-Based ERP Systems in SMEs

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