The adoption of intranets and extranets involve major organisational innovation. Intranets alter the flows and content of internal communications, while extranets alter communications between the firm and its clients and suppliers. The paper identifies a number of potential factors that may affect adoption. These include internal and external business drivers, the role of the CEO/owner, firms’ ...

This study investigates the adoption and impacts new educational technology has on teacher’s work and organization. In the context of this study, new educational ICT applications cover primarily tools for web based training (WBT). This study focuses on developing a new theoretical framework for understanding consequences of new educational technologies in organizations and for educational staff...

The purpose of this study is to explore the key drivers and challenges of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) adoption by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the Accra Metropolis of Ghana. SMEs play a major role in developing and developed economies in job creation and diversification of economic activities. The literature shows that while there are many drivers of ICTs a...

This paper explores the assimilation gap, the gap between the acquisition of a technology and its deployment, in higher education teaching. The relevant literature covers three themes: technology diffusion, the technology acceptance model and task-technology fit. To explore the significance of these models to a teaching environment case study research was undertaken within a university college ...

This paper reports on two case studies, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) adoption among small businesses conducted in both United States and China. One small business from Nebraska (United States of America) and one small business from Sichuan (China) were chosen for comparison. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a comparative case study based on the ICT adoption among s...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can make a major contribution to the management of publicly funded research in agriculture by improving the effectiveness of research activities, their results, their dissemination and eventual implementation. The Israeli ICT adoption case study outlines a combination of competitive, cost effective public R&D funding with public maintenance of sc...

This study develops a research model to analyze the outcome of ICT adoption by firms in underdeveloped countries. Based on the theoretical framework of the knowledge based view (KBV) and management information systems literature. This paper proposes a model where a firm’s success when adopting ICT depends mainly on it’s network relationship and assimilation capacity and the characteristics of t...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has helped to drive increasingly intense global competition. In turn, this intensity increases the need for flexibility and rapid changeability in ICT to support strategies that depend on organisational agility. We report a comparative, cross-cultural case study of the implementation of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) at a Scandinavian bank an...

Empirical evidence underlines the importance of ICT-based innovations in education for at least two reasons: They prepare for a future workplace in a knowledge society increasingly dependent on ICT and furthermore, they support student-centred learning processes. However, adoption of ICT in educational organizations in general as well as of specific ICT-based innovations varies broadly across n...

The monetized catalyst and impetus for the adoption of Green ICT by business are explored in this paper. For a business to significantly reduce its environmental footprint through the use of Green ICT, a strategic transformation of business is required. Such a transformation includes changes to business models, a redefinition of business processes, a realignment of information exchange, and int...