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| Tekijä: | Xu, S. Zhu, K. Gibbs, J. |
| Otsikko: | Global technology, local adoption: A cross-country investigation of Internet adoption by companies in the United States and China |
| Lehti: | Electronic markets
2004 : VOL. 14:1, p. 13-24 |
| Asiasana: | Electronic commerce Internet Innovation Diffusion Globalization Technology Organizations Asia USA |
| Vapaa asiasana: | e-business e-commerce |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | To gain a better understanding of the global diffusion of e-business among organizations in developed and developing countries and to investigate the relationships among e-business contexts, economic environment, and organizational adoption, a firm-level survey is conducted in two countries - the United States and China - and tested a research framework built on the technology-organization-environment framework. Empirical data from 262 U.S. firms and 175 Chinese firms provided evidence about the extent of organizational adoption of e-business. Major findings include: 1. Chinese firms lag in using e-business-related technologies, especially interorganizational technologies, 2. U.S. firms make more extensive use of the Internet, and 3. government regulation plays a more important role in China than in the U.S. Moreover, using structural equation modelling, four adoption facilitators are teased out in general - technology competence, enterprise integration, competition intensity, and regulatory environment. These factors played different roles in different economic environments. |
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