Institutions and the Adoption of Electronic Commerce in Mexico

García‐Murillo, Martha

doi:10.1023/b:elec.0000027980.16492.af

Cited by 37 publications

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“…This finding is consistent to the fact that a dominance of research on e-commerce in developing countries tends to be particularly focused on adoption and diffusion of the innovation and transactioncost oriented perspective of benefits to be achieved (Boateng and Hinson, 2007). There exist only a few studies that have sought to address the issue of offering strategic guidance to DC firms to handle their institutional constraints and move beyond adoption to institutionalize e-business into organizational routine and processes (Montealegre, 2002;Garcia-Murillo, 2004;Ganesh et al, 2004;Zhu and Kraemer, 2005). Though achieving operational excellence is essential, the potential of e-business in making a sustained significant impact on organisational performance and socio-economic development in the context of developing countries requires knowledge on how to achieve strategic success (Lee, 2001).…”

Section: E-business Benefitssupporting

confidence: 70%

Perceived Benefits and Management Commitment to E‐business Usage in selected Ghanaian Tourism Firms

Hinson

Boateng

2007

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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We set out in this article to generate a preliminary understanding of the benefits of e-business to tourism firm players in Ghana. We also sought to ascertain the commitment of top management to e-business development in Ghanaian tourist firms. We investigate our research issues by surveying 60 tourism firms. Of the 60 questionnaires we administered, 43 were deemed usable and we report our findings by means of descriptive statistics. We find that in conformance with the theory of planned behaviour, top management commitment, perceived strategic value of e-business and organizational readiness are critical to e-business adoption. In spite of the fact that e-business holds the promise of delivering benefits to Ghana tourism firms, their understanding of e-business/ICT still remains at an operational level. The value of this study lies in the fact that it is one of the few studies focussing on e-business adoption in the West African tourism sector, in spite of the growing importance of this sector.

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Section: E-business Benefitssupporting

confidence: 70%

Perceived Benefits and Management Commitment to E‐business Usage in selected Ghanaian Tourism Firms

Hinson

Boateng

2007

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…Several factors have contributed to the poor pace of e-commerce development in developing countries, especially in Africa. Such factors include: consumer mistrust of local Internet service and products (Pavlou, 2003); uneven diffusion of Internet across countries and poor ICT infrastructure (Rose and Straub, 2001), (Garcia-Murillo, 2004), (Dutta and Roy, 2004); unorganized electronic marketing (Rovenpor, 2003); government policies and low credit card penetration (Hawk, 2004). Trust and economic conditions explain more than 80% of variability in online shopping behaviour (Mahmood et al, 2004).…”

Section: Imentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There has been significant research on electronic commerce, but majority of the studies have focused on the developed countries such as the United States of America, Canada, and Western Europe (Garcia-Murillo, 2004). However, most of the world's population exists outside the borders of these countries.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Behavioral Influences on E‐Commerce Adoption in a Developing Country Context

Uzoka

Shemi

Seleka

2007

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Electronic commerce (e‐commerce) is rapidly gaining a prominent place in the global marketing matrix. The volume of transactions that are carried out over the Internet globally is extremely huge. It is estimated that in the next decade, e‐commerce activities would be a major source of foreign exchange, and a key indicator of national development. Studies show that e‐commerce development in developing countries, especially in Africa is comparatively very low. Infrastructural, economic, and management factors have been previously identified as contributing to the low level of e‐commerce development in developing countries. This study focuses on behavioural factors in the adoption of e‐commerce in developing countries. The results of the study show that perceived advantages, Internet and complexity, accessibility, and management support have statistically significant influence on the adoption of e‐commerce, while perceived disadvantages and other facilitating conditions do not significantly affect the decision to adopt e‐commerce. The study results tend to agree with the theory of planned behaviour, but attitude seems to weigh more than subjective norm and perceived behavioural control.

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“…Thus, it is anticipated that such differences and similarities between mature and emerging markets can be extrapolated to DSs. Adoption/ Application Kartiwi and MacGregor (2007) Barriers/SF Main focus on SME e-commerce barriers and success factors (SF) Stockdale and Standing (2006) Barriers/SF/Adoption/Application Fernando Alonso and Fitzgerald (2005) Barriers/SF/Adoption/Application Fillis and Wagner (2005) Barriers/SF Gengatharen and Standing (2005) Barriers/SF Heeks et al (2005) Barriers/SF Kaynak et al (2005) Barriers/SF E. E. Grandon and Pearson (2004) Barriers/SF Houghton and Winklhofer (2004) Adoption/ Application Jennex et al (2004) Barriers/SF (continued) Several authors believe that a higher SME e-commerce adoption rate could have positive effects for the overall economy, in terms of increased productivity and new market opportunities García-Murillo 2004;Hinson et al 2008). Although this has been found to be generally true for ICT adoption (Middleton and Byus 2011), studies have found mixed results on the intensity of the impact for SMEs in emerging markets (Foley and Ram 2002;Kenny 2003;Rangaswamy and Nair 2012;Zahir 2008).…”

Section: Digital Economymentioning

confidence: 99%