An Assessment Of Ownersimanagers Intention To Adopt Web-Based Supply Chain Management (SCM) System In Small Medium Industry (SMI) Organizations
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Date
2003-03
Authors
Sian Choong, Lam
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Abstract
Small and Medium Industries or more commonly known as SMI has played a
major role in Malaysian's growing economy in the past few decades:- There are
total of more than 50,000 SMI companies in Malaysia. However, according tc
SMIDEC, with such a huge number of Malaysian SMI companies, only 30 per
cent of those have implemented Information Technology (IT) System and have
Web presence in their daily operation of the company. Compared to 80 per cent
of IT-savvy SMIs in Europe and United States, Malaysian SMIs are still lagging
behind in terms of IT system. Therefore, they are losing out their competitive
advantage over their IT -savvy counterparts in Europe and United States. The
main objective of this study is to assess the intention of use of Information
Technology based system by owners/managers in Malaysian SMI to perform
business transactions in their organization. Specifically, this study focuses on
the use of web-based Supply Chain Management (SCM) system to conduct
business transactions amongst S?vIEs, other bigger organizations, their suppliers
and customers. This is essential as intention of adoption of IT system
specifically web-based SCM would greatly affect the success of implementation
of web-based SCM in Malaysians SMIs/S?vIEs. In this paper, we would focus
on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to study factors affecting the adoption
of IT speci ficall y web-based SCM in the SMIISMEs.
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Supply Chain Management (SCM) , Small Medium Industry (SMI)