Predicting SMEs' adoption of enterprise systems

By Boumediene Ramdani, Peter Kawalek, Oswaldo Lorenzo. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 2009

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that can be used to predict which small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) are more likely to become adopters of enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, SCM and e‐procurement).Design/methodology/approach – Direct interviews were used to collect data from a random sample of SMEs located in the Northwest of England. Using logistic regression, 102 responses were analysed.Findings – The results reveal that the factors influencing SMEs' adoption of enterprise systems are different from the factors influencing SMEs' adoption of other previously studied information systems (IS) innovations. SMEs were found to be more influenced by technological and organisational factors than environmental factors. Moreover, the results indicate that firms with a greater perceived relative advantage, a greater ability to experiment with these systems before adoption, greater top management support, greater organisational readiness and a larger size are predicted to become adopters ...

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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SMEs' adoption of enterprise applications: A technology-organisation-environment model (2013, background): “The attention of software vendors has moved recently to SMEs offering them a vast range of EA, which were formerly only adopted by large firms (Ramdani et al., 2009).”
Integrating TAM, TPB and TOE frameworks and expanding their characteristic constructs for e-commerce adoption by SMEs (2015, background): “ICT, expeditious data processing models, configurable platforms, networking, and the internet provide SMEs with access to knowledge and foster inter/intra-organizational integration (Metaxiotis, 2009; Ramdani et al., 2009) with the promises of cost-effective operations and interactions.”
What Drives the Implementation of Industry 4.0? The Role of Opportunities and Challenges in the Context of Sustainability (2018, background): “Since several studies have already shown the relevance of organizational characteristics, such as complexity of existing systems [81], integration [82], and organizational readiness [83] for the implementation of new (manufacturing) technologies, we include this challenge in our framework.”
Understanding determinants of cloud computing adoption using an integrated TAM-TOE model (2015, unknown): “…organizational and environmental variables has made TOE advantageous over other adoption models in studying technology adoption, technology use and value creation from technology innovation (Hossain and Quaddus, 2011; Oliveira and Martins, 2010; 110 ,1 Ramdani et al. , 2009; Zhu and Kraemer, 2005).”
Determinant Factors of E-commerce Adoption by SMEs in Developing Country: Evidence from Indonesia☆ (2015, result): “This is consistent with previous studies, such as Ghobakhloo and Tang (2013), Thi and Lim (2011), Ramdani et al. (2009), Al-Qirim (2007), Wymer and Regan (2005), Thong (1999), and Thong and Yap (1995).”
Factors influencing the use of social media by SMEs and its performance outcomes (2015, background): “Whereas Ramdani et al. (2009) in their study, found that compatibility is an insignificant factor in the adoption of enterprise systems.”
Understanding the impact of social media usage among organizations (2017, result): “The result on relative advantage was consistent with the previous studies, which argued that relative advantage is an important factor in the adoption of any new technology [42,3,18].”
Internet/e-business technologies acceptance in Canada's SMEs: An exploratory investigation (2011, background): “…and commitment generally boded well for the acceptance of technological innovations in organizations, including SMEs (e.g., Iacovou et al., 1995; Grover, 1993; Premkumar & Roberts, 1999; Beatty et al., 2001; Chwelos et al., 2001; Grandon & Pearson, 2004; Al-Qirim, 2007; Ramdani et al., 2009).”