E-business Adoption: from the Economic and Strategic Management Perspectives
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This study proposed a model to investigate e-business adoption from the economic and strategic management perspectives by incorporating network externalities and strategic information orientation. The model was tested using survey data from 307 international trading companies in China. The results indicated that both network externalities and information orientation were important e-business adoption enablers. The influences of these two factors on e-business adoption were partially mediated by the firm’s expected benefits from e-
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تاریخ انتشار 2006