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Studies on the adoption of innovations by companies generally include micro-level and meso-level variables in order to explain a company's receptiveness to innovations. This study adds to the literature by investigating the role of macro-level variables (i.e. national culture) to explain differences in innovation penetration levels and adoption dec...
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... classifications are discussed below. Table 2 shows a classification of countries in low and high context, their characteristics and the expected role in adoption decisions. This distinction is based on the way messages are communicated within a society. ...
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... scores on the Hofstede dimensions were based on Hofstede's IBM study (Hofstede, 2001). The scores on Hall's cultural dimensions were based on a study by Morden (1999) that ranked a number of countries worldwide on Hall's cultural dimensions, as shown in Tables 2 and 3. We used this ranking by giving a score to the various categories of countries, ranging from very low (=1) to very high (=16) context, from very monochronic (=1) to very polychronic (=20). ...
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... data set includes three high context cultures. Two out of these three are also characterized as polychronic cultures, according to the categorization between low and high, and between monochronic and polychronic as indicated in Tables 2 and 3. The results of t-tests show that the low context and monochronic cultures have significantly higher ERP penetration levels than high context and polychronic cultures, which confirms hypotheses 6 and 7. Companies base their adoption decisions more on rational, economic arguments, and rely less on emotions. ...
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فرهنگ سازمانی از جمله موضوعات مهم رفتاری است که به عنوان یکی از فاکتورهای کلیدی موفقیت پروژه های پیادهسازی سیستم های برنامه ریزی منابع سازمان، شناخته میشود. اما این مسئله کمتر به صورت علمی مورد تحقیق قرار گرفته است و جنبه های تاثیرگذار آن شناسایی شده است. لذا در این تحقیق، تلاش شده است تا رابطه بین آن دو، مورد بررسی قرار گیرد. این مقاله مبتنی بر یک پژوهش میدانی در شرکت های ایرانی می باشد که حداقل نه ماه از زمان پیادهسازی سیستم برنامهریزی منابع سازمان آنها گذشته باشد و از سیستم های معتبر بین المللی نیز استفاده کرده باشند. داده های 8 سازمان، با استفاده از ابزار پرسشنامه جمع آوری شده و تحلیل عاملی تاییدی با استفاده از نرم افزار لیزرل و تجزیه تحلیل رگرسیون روی آن انجام شده است. نتایج تحقیق نشان می دهند که فرهنگ سازمانی SPSS با استفاده از نرم افزار دارای رابطه مثبتی با موفقیت پیادهسازی سیستمهای برنامه ریزی منابع سازمان است. از میان متغیرهای فرهنگ سازمانی نیز فرهنگ مشارکت، همکاری و پشتیبانی بیشترین ارتباط را با رفتار شهروندی سازمانی دارا می باشد و فرهنگ تحمل مخاطره و تعارض در رده بعدی قرار گرفته است. با توجه به یافته های تحقیق، ضروری است که مدیران سازمان ها با تاکید بر ارتقای فرهنگ سازمانی، به بهبود موفقیت پیادهسازی سیستمهای برنامه ریزی منابع سازمان بپردازند و ساز و کارهایی را بدین منظور در پیش گیرند
Industry-wide information infrastructures (IIIS) have recently gained increased attention by policy makers, especially in the healthcare sector where it is believed that IIIS can substantially contribute to the taming of exploding healthcare costs and dramatically improve service quality, e.g., by avoiding widespread medication errors. However, the emergence and evolution of IIIS is as yet poorly understood, partly because the information systems (IS) literature traditionally uses much smaller units of analysis such as projects, organizations or small networks of organization. In this paper, we propose a combined company-level and industry-level framework to shed light on the process of IIIS emergence. We demonstrate, for the first time, that IIIS emergence is intricately linked to the industry life cycle for the case of fragmented industries. We also explore the relationship between the industry-level and company-level life cycles in the process of IIIS emergence, and develop a novel proposition regarding this relationship. Our findings suggest that current policy initiatives to promote the development of IIIS have not adequately taken industry-level conditions into consideration.
