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This paper draws upon the innovation assimilation theory and the conceptual lens of business processes to explain the importance of the facilitators in achieving higher levels of e-business assimilation within an organization. Survey data are utilized to test the relationships among these factors and the extent of organizational assimilation of e-business in China. The results assist managers to implement...
This paper applies the legitimacy perspective to examine the financing of technological start-ups in a transitional economy. In particular, this study identifies five key factors that help technological start-ups build up their legitimacy: R&D investment, conformity to ISO9000, affiliation with research institutions, state-owned enterprise, and firm size. Empirical findings from 11,154 new technological...
In this study, we proposed a set of constructs and used it to assess the effects of ICT on e-commerce migration-migrating toward internet-based e-commerce at firm level. We examined the validity of the instrument in terms of the relationships to e-commerce migration with data from 156 firms in China. A series of hypotheses were designed and tested, and the drivers and their contributions to e-commerce...
E-commerce provides both opportunities and risks to SMEs. The objective of this study is to identify the state of use of e-commerce and the factors that influence the level to which SMEs use e-commerce. A research model is postulated that contains eight potential independent variables and hypotheses under three broad categories - technological, organizational and environmental characteristics. The...
In the liberalized electricity market, both private investors and policy makers need a set of tools to develop and assess flexible investment projects under uncertainties in order to manage the risks involved. Based on the analyses of the generation investment environment and the theory of real options, this paper proposes a layered framework for generation strategic planning and investment, in which...
Past research has studied a variety of variables. However, less research is found to measure e-commerce (EC) development in terms of business processes. Building upon the TOE (Technology-Organization-Environment) framework, a research model for assessing EC development was developed, incorporating eight factors. A series of propositions were then developed. 156 cross-sectional samples in 16 industries,...
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