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Conceptualizing a Model for the Effect of Information Culture on Electronic Commerce Adoption

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Recent Trends in Data Science and Soft Computing (IRICT 2018)

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Abstract

There are many vital roles and attributes played by the internal organizational environment in IT adoption. Technological innovations are adopted as a result of the reaction of many organizations to change and for influencing the business environment. For this study, a conceptual model was developed to focus on the effect of information culture as internal organizational factors on Electronic Commerce (EC) adoption on small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The proposed model buttressed by four of information culture as internal organizational factors. Specifically, the model constructed from, the information integrity, formality, control and proactiveness variables, evaluated their effects and determined how they can optimally be combined to permit EC adoption by SMEs. To achieve the objectives of the research, a pilot study was conducted with 35 managers of ICT SMEs from Palestine, to assess the proposed model. The proposed model will be assisting SMEs managers better understand and increase predictive capacity on EC adoption. This model will be applied to increase the rate at which EC is adopted among SMEs.

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The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) for supporting this work through Research Grant Scheme RDU180310.

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  1. Faculty of Business and Economic, Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie, P. O. Box 7, Tulkarem, Palestine

    Fadi A. T. Herzallah & Dirar Eleyan

  2. Faculty of Computer Systems and Software Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300, Gambang, Pahang, Malaysia

    Mohammed A. Al-Sharafi, Qasim Alajmi & Ruzaini Abdullah Arshah

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and MIS, Oman College of Management and Technology, Muscat, Oman

    Qasim Alajmi

  4. Research Center for Software Technology and Management, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Muriati Mukhtar

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  3. Information Technology Department, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Taiz University, Taiz, Yemen

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Herzallah, F.A.T., Al-Sharafi, M.A., Alajmi, Q., Mukhtar, M., Arshah, R.A., Eleyan, D. (2019). Conceptualizing a Model for the Effect of Information Culture on Electronic Commerce Adoption. In: Saeed, F., Gazem, N., Mohammed, F., Busalim, A. (eds) Recent Trends in Data Science and Soft Computing. IRICT 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 843. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99007-1_80

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