Understanding it adoption decisions in small business: integrating current theories

Riemenschneider, Cynthia K.; Harrison, David A.; Mykytyn, Peter P.

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“…Also must be added the fact that as Riemenschneider, Harrison and Mykytyn (2003) indicate, "in the case of SME's the decision to implant a Website is the responsibility of a single individual".…”

Section: H1: Possessing a Corporate Website Is Independent Of The Manmentioning

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Empirical Evidence Concerning Smes Corporate Websites: Explaining Factors, Strategies and Reporting

García-Borbolla¹,

Larran²,

Lopez³

2005

IJDAR

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Abstract. The important role played by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in any contemporary economy as a motive force for generating employment and wealth is universally acknowledged and therefore this work is based upon a more detailed study concerning the efficiency of SMEs.Therefore by analysing a sample of 816 SMEs, we aim to study the information published on their Websites in order to clarify certain doubts with respect to the type of target users and thus discover the objectives and strategies pursued by publishing a corporate Webpage. Given the low observed percentage of SMEs with a Website (31.74%) we have also studied the factors influencing the propensity of businesses to possess a corporate Website.

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Section: H1: Possessing a Corporate Website Is Independent Of The Manmentioning

confidence: 99%

Empirical Evidence Concerning Smes Corporate Websites: Explaining Factors, Strategies and Reporting

García-Borbolla¹,

Larran²,

Lopez³

2005

IJDAR

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“…It is defined as the extent to which a CEO believes that the applications of the EC would make her/him able to do the tasks better (Davis, 1989). Prior studies evidenced that EC usefulness plays a significant role in EC adoption (Riemenschneider et al, 2003;Lin & Wu, 2004;Grandon & Pearson, 2004;Roberts & Toleman, 2007). Effect of perceived usefulness on EC adoption was significantly approved in SMEs' context in Iran (Ghamatrasa, 2006;Ghorishi, 2009;Abbasi et al, 2010;Hajiha et al, 2010).…”

Section: Perceived Usefulness (Awards)mentioning

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“…The role of subjective norm had been evidently studied by prior researches in SME domain (e.g., Kula & Tatoglu, 2003;Riemenschneider et al, 2003;Sarosa & Underwood, 2005;Dawkins & Frass, 2005;Ghamatrasa, 2006;Celuch et al, 2007;Nasco et al, 2008;Abbasi et al, 2010;Hajiha, et al, 2010). However, regarding to the significant differences in case of CEO's perception of internal and/or external expectation (pressure) in family SMEs caused by their unique characteristics, such as networking intensity, dependency, conservativeness and altruism, the role of subjective norm in such district SMEs, as recently considered by a study of Niehm et al (2010) needs more investigation.…”

Section: Subjective Normmentioning

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“…, Lin and Wu (2004), Riemenschneider et al,(2003), Grandon and Pearson (2004), Ghamatrasa (2006), Roberts and Toleman (2007), Ghorishi (2009), Abbasi et al,(2010), HAJIHA, et al, (2010 Relative Advantages /Benefits (Indirect/Direct) Mathieson(1991), Pfeiffer (1992), Iacovou et al, (1995), Vadapalli and Ramamurthy(1997), Agarwal and Prasad (1998), Thong (1999), Premkumar and Roberts (1999), Poon and Swatman (1999), Walczuch et al, (2000), Kendall et al, (2001), Kuan and Chau (2001), Beatty et al, (2001), Mirchandani and Motwani (2001) , Mehrtens et al,…”

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“…Compatibility Thong (1999), Karahanna et al,(1999), Beatty et al, (2001), Mirchandani and Motwani (2001), Kendall et al, (2001), Wu and Sawy (2003), Ching and Ellis (2004), Teo and Ranganathan (2004), Grandon and Pearson (2004) , Al-Qirim (2005), Wu and Wu (2005), Jeon et al,(2006), Huy and Filiatrault (2006), Chong (2006), Sparling et al, (2007), Al-Qirim (2007), Afzal (2008), Sameni and Khoshalhan (2009), Ghobakhloo et al,(2011b) Trialability Kendall et al, (2001), Wu and Sawy (2003), Zhang and Huang (2004), Wu and Wu (2005), Chong (2006), Sameni and Khoshalhan (2009) Observability Karahanna et al, (1999) Harrison D. et al, (1997), Venkatesh and Davis(2000), McKinney (2001-2002), Kula and Tatoglu (2003), Riemenschneider et al, (2003), Sarosa and Underwood (2005), Dawkins and Frass (2005), Ghamatrasa (2006), Celuch et al, (2007), Nasco et al, (2008), Abbasi et al,(2010), Niehm et al, (2010), HAJIHA, et al, (2010 www.ccsenet.org/ass Asian Social Science Vol. 11, No.…”

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Conceptualizing Model of Factors Influencing Electronic Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family SMEs

Jamali¹,

Marthandan²,

Khazaei³

et al. 2015

ASS

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Purpose -This paper aims to provide a conceptual model for the purpose of examining potential influencing factors as well as particular effect of family SMEs' heterogeneity factors on EC adoption in Iranian family SMEs.Design/methodology/approach -The conceptual model originates from EC adoption study backgrounds, grounded in the major concepts of frequently EC adoption and their dependent-extended models. Literature review presents relevant items under their main first order factors, including family SMEs' heterogeneity factors, categorized by contexts.Findings -The model, in which EC adoption refers to the significance of 'Extent of Deployment' as innovation behavior, respecting to the theoretical basis of human behavior including essential pure theories (i.e. Learning; Anchoring-and-Adjustment) and major concepts of frequently EC adoption models (TAM; TPB; SCT; DOI), besides role of family SMEs' heterogeneity factors (i.e. The moderating effects of 'Family Strategic Orientation') provided a basis for assessing potential EC adoption antecedents (under which different facets of EC adoption would be considered) including 13 th first orders, categorized under four main individual, organizational, industrial, and national contexts.Practical implications -As a sustainable business market mean, EC adoption as an extra-exploitation of electronic commerce, making wider and more diversified external 'business-linked' and/or 'customer-linked' business relationships, particularly for family SMEs that suffer from 'marketing deficiency', time and effort is necessary so as to identify influencing factors and diagnose their effects on EC deployment in such Iranian SMEs, where EC adoption is questionably near to ground. The presented model is quite valuable for the analysis.Originality/value -This paper presents a conceptual model for analyzing EC adaption factors under related contexts. Independent influences of 12 first potential factors categorized in four contexts as well as the moderation effect of 'family strategic orientation' variable on EC adoption are studied in the model. The design differs from previous studies as they used dichotomous approaches for 'family strategic Orientation' determination.

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The Adoption of Electronic Commerce by Small and Medium Enterprises in Pretoria East

Garg

Choeu

2015

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The objectives of this study were to determine the current level of e-commerce adoption and factors that motivates the adoption by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Pretoria East. A structured questionnaire survey was distributed to 200 randomly selected small and medium enterprises and 48 valid responses were obtained. The results indicate that 67 percentage of SMEs in the sample in Pretoria East have somewhat embraced the adoption of e-commerce. Retail is the largest industry sector in the sample followed by Service industry with 45.8percentage and 35.4 percentage respectively. The results also indicates that Service sector was at adoption level 2 followed by Retail and others. The results show that only three independent factors namely (relative advantage, competitive pressure, IT knowledge) were statistically significant. Relative advantage emerged as the most important factor influencing the adoption of e-commerce among SMEs in terms of relative importance. The Chi-square test indicates that the type of business, occupation level, numbers of employees in the company and academic qualification did influence the adoption levels amongst SMEs whilst how long as owner/manager and gender did not influence the adoption level. Keywords:Adoption, E-commerce, Small and medium enterprise, Pretoria. INTRODUCTIONAccording to SME Survey (2012), the small and medium enterprises (SME) sector in South Africa accounts to 40% of GDP and 60% of the workforce in the formal employment. The World Wide Worx Report indicates that more than R2 billion was spent on online shopping in South Africa in 2010 but the rate of e-commerce adoption on SME is still rather low.Electronic Commerce (e-commerce) has been predicted to be a new driver of economic growth for developing countries (Humphrey et al.2004:31). Adopting e-commerce has not been easy for SMEs world-wide (Jones et al., 2011) partly because of the everchanging field of information systems and the varying needs of local and global business in general. The adoption of e-commerce in SMEs remains a critical area of investigation in information systems research (Parker and Castleman, 2009;MacGregor, 2004). Previous studies of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and e-commerce adoption report that SMEs in developing countries generally have not capitalised on the power of the Internet to extend their business beyond traditional borders (Bai et al., 2008;Molla and Licker, 2005a;Humphrey et al. 2004) except in the application of simple technologies such as electronic mail (Mpofu and Watkins-Mathys, 2011). Some of the reasons put forward from the literature include: cost of acquiring and operating ICT, lack of ICT and e-commerce knowledge, owner/manager low literacy levels, inability to perceive e-commerce benefits, unfriendly regulatory policy and requirements, cultural issues and dependence on customer or supplier preferences. According to Cragg, Caldeira and Ward (2011), a low level of 1 Corresponding author EJISDC (2015) 68, 7, 1-23 The Electronic Journal ...

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Understanding it adoption decisions in small business: integrating current theories

Cited by 414 publications

References 35 publications

Empirical Evidence Concerning Smes Corporate Websites: Explaining Factors, Strategies and Reporting

Empirical Evidence Concerning Smes Corporate Websites: Explaining Factors, Strategies and Reporting

Conceptualizing Model of Factors Influencing Electronic Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family SMEs

The Adoption of Electronic Commerce by Small and Medium Enterprises in Pretoria East

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