TY - GEN
T1 - Development outcomes from IT adoption in micro-enterprises
AU - Kamal, Mehruz
AU - Good, Travis
AU - Qureshi, Sajda
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The ability of micro-enterprises to adopt IT can potentially increase their growth by 3.4% according to a World Bank expert. However these gains do not always take place as the challenges are many. In order to identify how IT adoption can lead to growth in micro-enterprises, this paper develops upon the IT adoption categories discovered in a prior research effort in order to arrive at development outcomes. Following an open coding analysis of the results of a focus group session in which a group of micro-enterprises participated, this paper discovers the relationships between the IT adoption categories and development outcomes. The contribution of this paper is in the discovery of the relationships between IT adoption and development outcomes in the form of a conceptual model.
AB - The ability of micro-enterprises to adopt IT can potentially increase their growth by 3.4% according to a World Bank expert. However these gains do not always take place as the challenges are many. In order to identify how IT adoption can lead to growth in micro-enterprises, this paper develops upon the IT adoption categories discovered in a prior research effort in order to arrive at development outcomes. Following an open coding analysis of the results of a focus group session in which a group of micro-enterprises participated, this paper discovers the relationships between the IT adoption categories and development outcomes. The contribution of this paper is in the discovery of the relationships between IT adoption and development outcomes in the form of a conceptual model.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2009.158
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2009.158
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650760934
SN - 9780769534503
T3 - Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS
BT - Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS
T2 - 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS
Y2 - 5 January 2009 through 9 January 2009
ER -