TY - GEN
T1 - A model of ICTs adoption for sustainable development
T2 - 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2013
AU - Xiong, Jie
AU - Qureshi, Sajda
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - As the driving force behind the economic growth of the United States and China, Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have fundamentally shaped a dramatic transformation in Small businesses, which represents the majority of all firms in both countries. However, while ICTs provide new opportunities and significant room of growth for the small business owners, the adoption of ICTs is still a challenge for the owners with limited resources in knowledge, skills, and abilities. In order to investigate how ICTs are adopted in small businesses in the United States and China, Grounded Theory is applied to code the interviews and cases. The contribution of this paper is in the comparative analysis of ICTs adoption in small businesses and the theory building that provides insight into the categories and relationships affecting the ICTs adoption in the two countries.
AB - As the driving force behind the economic growth of the United States and China, Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have fundamentally shaped a dramatic transformation in Small businesses, which represents the majority of all firms in both countries. However, while ICTs provide new opportunities and significant room of growth for the small business owners, the adoption of ICTs is still a challenge for the owners with limited resources in knowledge, skills, and abilities. In order to investigate how ICTs are adopted in small businesses in the United States and China, Grounded Theory is applied to code the interviews and cases. The contribution of this paper is in the comparative analysis of ICTs adoption in small businesses and the theory building that provides insight into the categories and relationships affecting the ICTs adoption in the two countries.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2013.632
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2013.632
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875492088
SN - 9780769548920
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 4197
EP - 4206
BT - Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2013
Y2 - 7 January 2013 through 10 January 2013
ER -