A model of Internet adoption by SMEs

By Jenni Mehrtens, Paul B. Cragg, Annette M. Mills. Information Manager (The), 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Usage, barriers and measurement of social media marketing: An exploratory investigation of small and medium B2B brands (2011, methodology): “Consistent with previous literature on the adoption of technologies (e.g., Mehrtens et al. 2001; Frambach & Schillewaert 2002), the adoption of SNS by SMEs is also determined by the innovativeness of the specific organization.”
Electronic business adoption by European firms: a cross-country assessment of the facilitators and inhibitors (2003, methodology): “As Internet technologies diffuse and become necessities, technical and managerial knowledge for e-business management becomes even more significant, an implication consistent with recent e-business case studies (e.g., Mehrtens et al., 2001).”
Factors for Successful e‑Government Adoption: a Conceptual Framework (2007, background): “User Characteristics • Perceived Ease of Service Quality”
Open innovation for SMEs in developing countries – An intermediated communication network model for collaboration beyond obstacles (2012, background): “There are three factors found that significantly affect internet adoption by small firms: perceived benefits, organisational readiness and external pressure from competitors and partners (Mehrtens et al. 2001), where have no ability to sue the infringer, so the legal concerns and lack of incentives ”
Electronic commerce adoption: an empirical study of small and medium US businesses (2004, methodology): “The adoption of the Internet was also studied by Mehrtens et al. [41].”
Understanding e-business adoption across industries in European countries (2010, background): “Empirical evidence suggests that competitive pressure is a powerful driver of IT adoption and diffusion (Al-Qirim, 2007; Battisti et al., 2007; Dholakia and Kshetri, 2004; Gibbs and Kraemer, 2004; Grandon and Pearson, 2004; Hollenstein, 2004; Iacovou et al., 1995; Lai et al., 2007; Mehrtens et al., ”
eCommerce adoption in developing countries: a model and instrument (2005, background): “Other studies [41] have also mixed innovation, organizational, and environmental imperatives, hence adopting an interactionism perspective to explain differences in eCommerce adoption.”
The Adoption of eCommerce Communications and Applications Technologies in Small Businesses in New Zealand (2006, background): “The research results showed that the CEO’s innovativeness was the only determinant of external-email adoption.”
Firms patterns of e-business adoption: evidence for the European Union-27. (2009, background): “Empirical evidence suggests that competitive pressure is a powerful driver of IT adoption and diffusion (Al-Qirim 2007, Battisti et al. 2007, Dholakia and Kshetri 2004, Gibbs and Kraemer 2004, Grandon and Pearson 2004, Hollenstein 2004, Iacovou et al. 1995, Mehrtens et al. 2001, Zhu et al. 2003).”
Internet/e-business technologies acceptance in Canada's SMEs: An exploratory investigation (2011, background): “However, others (e.g. Cragg et al., 2001; Dongen et al., 2002; Simpson & Doherty, 2004) found that a lack of financial resources was not a sufficient factor to set back IEBT adoption in SMEs.”
Examining technology acceptance by school teachers: a longitudinal study (2003, background): “At the same time, the analysis of individual technology acceptance has proceeded along several dimensions, including target users [13] [41] [48], implementation context [31] [44], and technology attributes [12] [45] [46].”
IT alignment and firm performance in small manufacturing firms (2002, background): “For example, managers in small firms are few in number, and have limited time and IT expertise, which limits their ability to devise IT strategy (Mehrtens et al., 2001).”
ICT Adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises: an Empirical Evidence of Service Sectors in Malaysia (2009, background): “This supported by Mehrtens et al. (2001) who demonstrated clearly that employees with technological skill are particularly encourage firms to recognize and implement ICT into the businesses.”
Business-to-business adoption of eCommerce in China (2007, methodology): “The contributions of this paper are to adapt, extend and empirically test the pioneering Molla and Licker Model [53,54] in the context of China.”