The Use of E-Business in Agribusiness: Investigating the Influence of E-Readiness and OTE Factors

Abstract

This study explores antecedents to sector based e-business use. Sectoral e-business studies are valuable to understand the absorption of e-business in dzferent economic sectors, the speczj?c challenges of using e-business across different sectors and the potential of dzferent sectors to integrate into the global digital value chain. Drawing from the perceived e-readiness model (PERM) and the Organizational, Technological and Environmental (OTE) framework, an integrated e-business use model is proposed. Data were collected from a survey offirms in the horticulture sector inAustralia. Empirical analysis of the integrated model show that e-business use within the horticulture sector is at the initial state of maturity. In terms of the antecedent factors, this research shows that technology competence, financial commitment, perceived environmental e-readiness and organizational size are influential factors that directly affect e-business use. Perceived organizational e-readiness has an indirect influence on e-business use. The implications of these findings to both global IT management and e-business research are discussed. Practitioners such as governments, horticulture associations, growers and growers associations and digital marketplace operators, through understanding these factors affecting e-business use, can make effective decisions to develop their support, capabilities and oferings respectively.

Readiness Model in Adopting E-health: An Indonesian Experience

“…There are 47 items of questionnaires to investigate e-health adoption and readiness factors from hospital perspectives besides the data of the hospital profile. The questionnaires consist of 11-item of adoption indicators [34], and employed a 5-Likert scale. In the meantime, the readiness factors [26], [31] consist of 8-item for Core Readiness, 9-item for Structural readiness, 6-item for Societal readiness, 5-item Engagement readiness, 4item for Expected effort and 4-item for Performance indicators [24], [33] which employed a 5-scala which range is from very important [14] to completely not important [13].…”

“…The adoption of e-health system in hospitals refers to using technology system for business activities (ebusiness). Accordingly, e-health adoption was derived from business-oriented use related to interbusiness communication, coordinations and collaboration [34]. Again, adoption also refers to the nature of system use [24] based on functional and expected purposes.…”

Electronic Health Readiness (EHR) in Indonesia

“…Readiness of the organization business in adopting ICT was investigated based on e-readiness of perceived organization, perceived environment, organizational characteristics and technological contexts [8]. This study shown that technology competence, financial commitment, perceived environmental ereadiness and organizational size were influential factors in ebusiness adoption [9]. Based on individual users, e-readiness study had been investigated by employee readiness for e-business [Lai and Ong.…”

The Nexus between Formal Credit and E-Commerce Utilization of Entrepreneurial Farmers in Rural China: A Mediation Analysis

“…Cloete and Doens [33] found that 55.4% of the surveyed agricultural enterprises had adopted e-commerce; the results of their regression analysis showed that the cognition of e-commerce and technical facilities significantly affected enterprises' willingness to adopt e-commerce. Molla et al [34] applied the integrated model to demonstrate that technological competence, financial commitment, perceived environmental e-readiness and organization size have a direct impact on agricultural enterprises' utilization of e-commerce; in addition, perceived organization e-readiness has an indirect influence on their use of e-commerce. Rahayu and Day [35] found that perceived benefits, technology readiness and owners' innovativeness, IT ability and IT experience are the major determinants of e-commerce adoption among small and medium enterprises.…”