IT Adoption Process in Pakistani SMEs

Shreehan Shahid

IT Adoption Process in Pakistani SMEs

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Information technology plays an important role in every field of life. Implementation and acceptance of IT always remain an important topic for researchers, engineers and practitioners. This study explores IT adoption factors influencing SMEs performance in developing countries. Relative advantages, complexity, ease of use, trialabiliy, observability were found frequently used factors to investigate SME performance. Frequently used factors and new identified factors from advance literature were profitability, communication improvement and attitude of employees for different SMEs.

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Shreehan Shahid. 2014. "IT Adoption Process in Pakistani SMEs". Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology - G: Interdisciplinary GJCST-G Volume 13 (GJCST Volume 13 Issue G4).

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/gjcst

Print ISSN 0975-4350

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it adoption factors sme performance SMEs technology acceptance

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Submission ReceivedDecember 14, 2012
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Accepted January 3, 2013
Published January 15, 2013

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Country: Pakistan

Subject: Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Authors: Shreehan Shahid, Irfan Anjum Manarvi (PhD/Dr. count: 0)

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