Innovation Diffusion Model Analysis

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The role of technology is important to organizations, if they want to compete in the global arena. E-business can help those organizations to achieve this goal, where they can connect to their stakeholders all over the world. E-business gives other advantages for businesses and their stakeholders. Many improvements in several areas arise from the adoption of e-business, which are cost performance, customer service, process capability, and dependability. Although the great benefits of e-business, there are not a few number of organization that not introduce it yet (Azyanee, et al. (2011); Abuabid & Rahim (2011); Irma & Chong (2013)).
There are many definitions for e-business. Watson, et al. (2000) define e-business as any business carried out …show more content…

Azyanee, et al. (2011) determine the factors that affect the adoption of e-business in small and medium size enterprises using a theoretical model based on the Innovation Diffusion Theory. The research model has five constructs .The five constructs are relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability and observability. The study is concerned with experimental investigation of factors that may affect e-business adoption in the state of Terengganu, Malaysia by applying the Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT). The structural model refers to that the IDT has accomplished model fit but supports only one direct path named compatibility. In Azyanee, et al. (2011) study, compatibility was found to have a positive and direct influence on the adoption of e-business in SMEs compared to other factors in the case of SMEs in the state of Terengganu, Malaysia and this result will be changed in different regions. This is due to the fact that the nature of the population itself, which were SMEs, might influence the result of the …show more content…

They develop a conceptual framework to determine the factors that affect e-business technology adoption in Saudi’ SMEs. They consider e-business introduction to be a process that consists of three stages: initiation, adoption and implementation. This model is evaluated using a qualitative approach. This approach consists of two stages. Frist stage, focus group will be formed and determine the factors that affect each stage of e-business introduction process. Second stage, Saudi Arabia SMEs from top industry sector will be selected to test the applicability of the

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