The Adoption of ICT among SMEs: Evidence from an Italian Survey

A firm-level analysis of ICT adoption in an emerging economy: evidence from the Colombian manufacturing industries

“…Based on a large number of observations on the ICT adoption behavior of Swiss business firms, the study confirms that medium-sized firms have the highest likelihood of ICT adoption. Although a few studies find that the size of firms is either irrelevant or even adverse to firms' ICT initiatives, the main findings in the literature are in support of a positive correlation between the ICT adoption and the size of firms (Delone, 1981;Gretton et al, 2004;Kowtha and Choon, 2001;Lucchetti and Sterlacchini, 2004;Morikawa, 2004).…”

“…As for the educational level of workers, a common proposition in the literature has been that ICT investment and adoption at the firm level can be facilitated when a firm's workforce is comprised of a relatively large number of higheducated (or high-skilled workers) because the ICT usage and its impact on productivity are likely to increase with the number of workers with higher educational attainment. Such complementary relationship between the adoption of ICT and the educational level of workers has been evidenced in a large number of studies (Arvanitis, 2005;Black and Lynch, 2000;Bresnahan et al, 2002;Chapman et al, 2000;Fabiani et al, 2005;Lucchetti and Sterlacchini, 2004;Parente, 1994;Perez et al, 2005;Yap et al, 1992).…”

“…A large number of empirical studies have confirmed a positive role of local competition in the ICT adoption at the firm level (Baldwin et al, 2004;Bayo-Moriones and Lera-Loez, 2007;Bertschek, 1995;Gattington and Robertson, 1989;Hollenstein, 2004). Fabiani et al (2005), and Lucchetti and Sterlacchini (2004) use binary variables to differentiate individual firms across different industries. It is also worth noting that Fabiani et al (2005) controls for geographical locations of establishments as a way to examine the effect of interactions among firms on the ICT adoption.…”

“…On the other hand, another important conception has been developed in the literature on technological changes: increasing recognition of the complementary relationship among the adoption and usage of ICT, firmspecific factors, and industrial structure. Since Milgrom and Roberts (1990) pioneered the study on the complementary role of firm-specific operational and organizational characteristics as determinants of the adoption of new information technologies at the firm level, a significant amount of the literature has focused on the identification of the factors that are inherent to varying adoption rates across firms of ICTs (Bocquet et al, 2007;Bayo-Moriones and LeraLopez, 2007;Fabiani et al, 2005;Giuri et al, 2008;Hollenstein, 2004;Lucchetti and Sterlacchini, 2004). …”

Information Technology, Logistics Performance and Moderating Effect of Firm Size: Empirical Evidence From East Coast Region of Malaysia

“…According to the literature, there are numerous types of IT systems used in logistics management including enterprise resource planning -ERP (Al-Mashari, 2002;Hsu & Chen, 2004;Kotnik & Hagsten, 2013); electronic data interchange -EDI (Angeles, Nath, & Hendon, 1998;Closs & Xu, 2000;Lucchetti & Sterlacchini, 2004), frequency identification -RFID (Evangelista et al, 2012;Helo & Szekely, 2005), global positioning system -GPS (Evangelista et al, 2012;Giaglis et al, 2004), transportation management systems -TMS (Perego, Perotti, & Mangiaracina, 2011;Mason et al, 2003), and barcode (Closs & Xu, 2000). As for this study, it will conceptualize the implementation of IT in terms of two dimensions; basic technology (internet access and wide computer usage) (Li et al, 2009) and advanced technology (GPS, ERP, EDI and ERP) (Banomyong & Supatn, 2011;Evangelista et al, 2012).…”