Empowering Women Through ICT-Based Business Initiatives: An Overview of Best Practices in E-Commerce/E-Retailing Projects

Maier, Sylvia; Nair‐Reichert, Usha

doi:10.1162/itid.2008.00007

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“…The high costs of ICT tool is another major barrier for women entrepreneurs in implementing ICT (Mugoshi, 2013). Several development agencies such as World Bank, USAID and the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have increased their funding in the development of ICT projects that are especially aimed to empower women entrepreneurs (Maier and Reichert, 2008).…”

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E-Commerce Adoption by Women Entrepreneurs in India: An Application of the UTAUT Model

Goswami¹,

Dutta²

2017

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The wide use of ICT applications has opened enormous opportunities for large, medium and even small organizations. This study aims to investigate the extent of adoption of e-commerce applications by the women owned SMEs in India, with special focus on behavioral factors which influence them to do so. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model was utilized to determine the strength of the constructs in influencing e-commerce adoption amongst women entrepreneurs. Using a structured questionnaire, responses were solicited via a field survey amongst 144 women entrepreneurs in two districts of Kolkata and 24 Parganas (South) in the State of West Bengal, India. The results show that three constructs, namely, performance expectancy, effort expectancy and social influence significantly affect the behavioral intention of these women entrepreneurs to use e-commerce. Experience and voluntariness to use are the moderators significantly correlated with effort expectancy, facilitating conditions and social influence. Moreover, it has been revealed that facilitating conditions and the behavioral intention positively influence their usage behavior.

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E-Commerce Adoption by Women Entrepreneurs in India: An Application of the UTAUT Model

Goswami¹,

Dutta²

2017

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“…One case study (Guihuan, 2005) does however provide some support to the direct impact argument that women benefit from the ICT usage. Moreover, the more general literature about women and ICTs suggests that ICTs may have an empowering function for women users, improving their sense of agency and control, increasing self-esteem and selfconfidence, and improving power relationships (Slater and Tacchi, 2005;Huyer, 2005;Garrido and Roman, 2006;Maier and Nair-Reichert, 2007).…”

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The Economic Impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Microenterprises in the Context of Development

Chew

Ilavarasan

Levy

2010

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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This paper investigates the impact of information and communication technologies, especially landline and mobile phones, computers, and Internet cafés in facilitating economic growth in the developing world. Data on access to ICTs, as well as business-relevant behaviors and attitudes, was collected by a multi-stage probability sample of women microentrepreneurs in Mumbai, India. Main findings include evidence that in urban microenterprises owned by women, business growth is a function of ICT access and is related to motivation to use ICTs for business purposes; and that the more positive a woman microentrepreneur feels about her status and power because of her business, the more she will be motivated to use ICTs in support of her business. Implications for the study of digital divides and strategies for studies of communication and technology more generally are considered.

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“…Many writers have written about its poor impact upon organisational reforms and productivity (Brynjolfsson 1993 ;Wilson 1995 ;Solow 1987 ). However, with the coming of the twenty-fi rst century and the empirical evidence on developmental achievements as part of the MDGs, it has become evident that ICT has enormous unexplored potential especially for women, children, underprivileged and persons with medical deformities and disabilities which can be utilised to achieve well-being more robustly (Heeks 2010 ;Maier 2007 ;Mossberger et al 2013 ;Piatkowski 2004 ;Dorgan and Dowdy 2004 ). These researchers sceptically suggest that ICTs may be replacing traditional technologies but doing the same job or helping people to communicate more in an arbitrary manner without contributing to strengthening deliberative democracy or this may also empower business fi rms to divert public discourses or even obstruct deliberative democracy.…”

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Developmental Aspirations and Networked Readiness

Singh

2013

A Critical Impulse to E-Governance in the Asia Pacific

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Development in a networked world has a much wider connotation. While there are varieties of participants representing different cultural and behavioural perceptions, there are also many platforms raising demands, mobilising opinion, generating critiques of policies and competing to be heard. There are various possibilities and opportunities which governments and citizens can utilise and learn from and develop abilities to enlarge the scale and proportion of their activities without impinging additional burden of cost and time on participation and implementation. In a world full of information and alternatives, no government can deny the need for networking nor can citizens escape being part of at least some of these networks. While the second chapter established the necessity for formulating e-governance policies with a critical insight on state power and the likely impact upon citizen's lives, freedom and privacy, the present chapter would highlight the need for revisiting the linear implementation designs of developmental policies and programmes to a more meandering, warped and sometimes entwined process in which contingencies and exigencies can make impactful changes in policies while they are implemented. While this needs knowledge-based governance, it also requires skill, technology and connectivity for preventing the society from splitting into counterproductive digital divides.Development and ICTs are related and nothing proves it better than the rising GDP of countries as the score on 'Networked Readiness Index' (NRI) goes up. NRI is propensity of countries to exploit opportunities for bringing development. ICT makes it easier to achieve the targets and the goals by transcending many traditional handicaps of geography, bureaucratic behaviour, human error and institutional designs. As the year of MDG deadline of 2015 draws to a close, nations are fervently gyrating to explore, invent and discover strategies, innovations and shortcuts to achieve the committed targets. Many data management and survey companies across the world are becoming active on identifying and selecting indices and policy categories for ranking countries in some of the key areas of governance and

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Empowering Women Through ICT-Based Business Initiatives: An Overview of Best Practices in E-Commerce/E-Retailing Projects

Cited by 59 publications

References 9 publications

E-Commerce Adoption by Women Entrepreneurs in India: An Application of the UTAUT Model

E-Commerce Adoption by Women Entrepreneurs in India: An Application of the UTAUT Model

The Economic Impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Microenterprises in the Context of Development

Developmental Aspirations and Networked Readiness

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