Factors Influencing Cloud Computing Adoption in Small Medium Enterprises

Hassan, Hasliza; Nasir, Mohd Azrin Mohd; Khairudin, Norhaiza; Adon, Iskandar

doi:10.32890/jict2017.16.1.2

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“…Thus, the H 0 was rejected. The result seemed to accord with findings by Hassan et al (2017) where SMEs with additional resources projected for the information technology (IT) and are under pressure from the competitors tend to adopt cloud computing. This showed that sales turnover is one of the factors that influenced the intention of the organization to adopt new technology.…”

Section: Association Between Firmographic Profiles and Agrofood Smes'supporting

confidence: 75%

Agro-food SMEs’ intention to adopt halal traceability system

Muhamad¹,

Kamarulzaman²,

Nawi³

2020

Food Res.

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Traceability system enables agro-food small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to record the information on attributes of their products along the food supply chain effectively. The halal status of the food products can be retained across companies’ supply chain by practising halal traceability system. This system is considered as one of the advanced technologies to overcome the violation of halal food products in the market despite low usage of advanced technologies detected among Malaysian SMEs. The main objective of the study was to investigate the agro-food SMEs’ intention to adopt halal traceability system. This study involved 130 agro-food SMEs that were selected using a systematic random sampling method. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data from the SMEs. The data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, mean ranking analysis, Chisquare analysis, and independent-samples t-test. The results revealed that majority of agro -food SMEs involved in this study (111 companies, 85.4%) were categorized as small business size companies and most of the agro-food SMEs (73 companies, 56.2%) was in operation for less and equal to 9 years in the agro-food industry. Based on the mean ranking analysis, the agro-food SMEs have high intention to adopt halal traceability system (mean score of 4.25). From the Chi-square analysis result, there was a significant association between sales turnover and agro-food SMEs’ intention to adopt halal traceability system (p=0.046). This explained that the agro-food SMEs with low sales turnover tend to have high intention to adopt halal traceability system in order to upgrade their businesses. Independent-samples t-test revealed that there was a significant difference between sales turnover of low and high intention of agro-food SMEs to adopt halal traceability system; t(128) = 1.964, p = 0.052. This study concluded that the agrofood SMEs should be encouraged and exposed to the adoption of advanced technologies in the market.

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Section: Association Between Firmographic Profiles and Agrofood Smes'supporting

confidence: 75%

Agro-food SMEs’ intention to adopt halal traceability system

Muhamad¹,

Kamarulzaman²,

Nawi³

2020

Food Res.

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“…Top management support is as a result of the fact that the conviction and willingness of top management to endorse adequate financial resources, technological competencies and human resources is vital for facilitating successful CC adoption (Hassan et al, 2017). Top management will be motivated to ensure that all kinds of resources needed to adopt CC successfully or expand its usage are provided when they are aware of its benefits (Oliveira et al, 2014;Pathan et al, 2017).…”

Section: Top Management Support On Change Management (Tmscm)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although, Malaysian government has supported SMEs from both financial and non-financial aspects, this study chooses government financial support because Malaysian government has provided huge financial support for CC adoption by SMEs and the effect is yet to be categorically explored. For instance, through the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) Malaysia, government of Malaysia offered a six-month refund on the subscription or RM1,500 and below of the total subscription for any type of SaaS such as cloud ERP from one of the Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) grade firms (Hassan, 2017;Hassan et al, 2017). An annual incentives of 250 USD was also introduced by the CC adoption programme initiated by the Malaysian government to incentivize local SMEs to embrace SaaS business cloud applications such as enterprise resource management (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), content management systems (CMS) etc., rendered by local SaaS vendors (Rosen et al, 2015).…”

Section: Government Financial Support (Gfs)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, the digital transformation of the economy through endeavours such as education and awareness campaigns and the Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Malaysia Cloud Computing Enablement Initiative (Mehrotra, 2017). Similarly, through the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), Malaysia government offers SMEs a six-month subscription fee refund or up to RM1,500 of the total amount of subscription for any type of Saas such as cloud ERP from any of the Malaysia MSC status companies (Hassan, 2017: Hassan, Mohd Nasir, Khairudin, andAdon, 2017).…”

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Contextual Factors and Strategic Consequences of Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Adoption in Malaysian Manufacturing SMEs: A Conceptual Framework

Jayeola¹,

Sidek²,

Rahman³

et al. 2020

IJEBA

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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to holistically investigate the interrelationships between key contextual factors of cloud ERP adoption and the strategic consequences of such adoption. Design/Methodology/Approach: The key contextual factors whose influences are explored on cloud ERP adoption are Feature task-match, (FTM); Top Management Support on Change Management (TMSCM) and Government Financial Support (GFS) while the strategic consequences of cloud ERP adoption investigated are competitive advantage (CA) and organisational performance. A conceptual framework grounded in Technology-Organisation-Environment (TOE) model, Task technology-fit (TTF) model and Resource-Based View (RBV) theory is developed for empirical validation that will involve a projected sample of 382 respondents of SMEs in Malaysia using PLS-SEM as main statistical analysis tool. Practical Implications: Practically, this study will guide SMEs' managers on cloud ERP selection that fits their firms' tasks, how to effectively deal with resistance to change occasioned by technology adoption and how effective GFS has been influencing cloud ERP adoption. In addition, SMEs managers stand to gain insight into how cloud ERP adoption can simultaneously and/or indirectly lead to competitive advantage and organisational performance as strategic benefits. Originality/Value: Investigation of a new variant key contextual factors critical for successful cloud ERP adoption and their subsequent impact on CA and organisational performance simultaneously and indirectly.

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“…Since cloud computing technology lays its foundation on internet technologies, persistent security issues hurdle its adoption. However, price minimization and modern safety algorithms with information technologies (IT) willingness hired in cloud computing are termed as major distinguishing factors of cloud computing [54] which will influence its adoption. Likewise, the advertisers are prepared to screen and manage utilitarian practices with the implementation and utilization of cloud information.…”

Section: Diffusion Of Innovation Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Fit-Viability Approach for E-Learning Based Cloud Computing Adoption in Higher Education Institutions: A Conceptual Model

Alajmi

Al-Sharafi

Chellathurai

2021

Studies in Systems, Decision and Control

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Today, exists an innovative thinking amongst the educators and learners in the use of e-learning method in the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) worldwide. Be that as it may, the E-learning framework requires immense up-front infrastructure with many establishments which isn't anything but difficult to be overseen. Cloud computing accompanies another advancement stage to overcome e-learning issues in a simple and cost-proficient way that HEIs can embrace to improve the nature of their scholarly services toward the end with the thought of an instructive innovation of educational technology. The fundamental point of this explorative study is to develop a conceptual model to examine the factors laid down by Information technology (IT) adoption theory that influencing the E-Learning Based Cloud Computing (ELBCC) by integrating fit-viability theory with the diffusion of innovations (DOI) theory's factors. The findings of this study demonstrated that the used scale measurement has met the criteria of reliability and validity. Further this study conveyed an integrated model for investigating Cloud Computing adoption for E-Learning in HEIs in Omani context in the Sultanate of Oman, and it provides the foundation for coming studies due to its infancy, and deep insight for cloud computing development, this is a hypothetical commitment. Moreover, this study builds up an empirical mechanism to explore influencing adoption features for the Omani HEIs perspective. In Composing, this is the first kind of an empirical study in Omani HEIs setting. At long last, the outcome will help the Omani HEIs to make sense of their preparation for E-Learning

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Factors Influencing Cloud Computing Adoption in Small Medium Enterprises

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Agro-food SMEs’ intention to adopt halal traceability system

Agro-food SMEs’ intention to adopt halal traceability system

Contextual Factors and Strategic Consequences of Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Adoption in Malaysian Manufacturing SMEs: A Conceptual Framework

Fit-Viability Approach for E-Learning Based Cloud Computing Adoption in Higher Education Institutions: A Conceptual Model

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