Straight-through-processing (STP) is an emerging IT-based innovation for financial services that redefines the way organizations can exchange business-critical information without manual intervention during the transaction lifecycle. While some progress has been made in understanding STP phenomena, few empirical studies have examined how STP innovation is adopted and diffused across organizatio...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of three organizational factors on the adoption of SaaS in Indonesian companies, namely top management support, organizational readiness, and organizational size. We conducted interviews with 15 case companies. Our results show that top management support has a positive influence on SaaS adoption, while organizational readiness and organizat...

Most universities make use of e-learning facilities to manage online learning, and this paper questions how decision are made to adopt this elearning package rather than that one, and then how to make use of it. We suggest that educational technology adoption decisions are made at two levels: strategic decisions are made by the university to implement a particular package, and then individual a...

In the studies concerned with the uptake of innovation, the process of diffusion and subsequent uptake of technological innovations is seen as a direct outcome of communication between users of an innovation and the potential adopters. Rogers (1995) explains that innovation spreads across a population of organisations beginning with the initial awareness of the innovation, and progressing to it...

RFID technology is recently an emerging technology that is being used in many echelons of supply chain participants. Most recent IS research on this technology focus on factors which will impact its organizational adoption. However, adoption is just one part of assimilation process which cannot make sure that RFID can be full-scale deployed in an organization. Assimilation theories also suggest...

Social capital is a concept that can be utilized in any delivery approaches for the efficient transfer of agricultural technologies. Over the decades, technology adoption and diffusion in agriculture have always been a problem with no leap forward solutions in sight. Adoption is defined as a decision to continue full use of an innovation while diffusion is defined as the process by which an inn...

Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory identifies characteristics of the innovation and organisation as the two major sources of influence on innovative behaviour. However, the external environment represents a major potential source of influential factors on e-business adoption because e-business is naturally affected by corresponding internet activity. This exploratory study, with DOI a...

Small firms’ use of e-business is limited and little is known about what drives small businesses (SMEs) to embrace e-business. It first discusses different growth strategies adopted by SMEs and reviews Internet adoption in SMEs. Drivers and inhibitors of e-business are identified. Three research questions are derived does strategic intent drive e-business adoption and is it a factor of market p...

Recent research suggests that there may be other, more granular factors that influence the adoption of innovations like cloud computing by organizations. In the current study, organizational adoption of cloud computing is investigated by examining specific aspects of the classical diffusion theory as they are framed in the context of the information processing paradigm. The authors argue that v...

This study is about the adoption of Web-based transactional banking (WBTB). A theoretical model integrating the efficiency-choice and neo-institutional perspectives was developed and tested using data from the population of all banks and thrifts in the United States. Does the Internet level the competitive landscape for small firms? Our results show that larger banking and thrift institutions h...