Business Value and E-Commerce Adoption

Authors

  • Anthony Akai Acheampong Otoo  School of Management, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, P.R. China
  • Li Zhiwen  School of Management, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, P.R. China
  • Charles Oduro Acheampong Otoo  School of Management, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, P.R. China
  • Maxwell Opuni Antwi  School of Management, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, P.R. China

DOI:

https://doi.org//10.32628/CSEIT195540

Keywords:

one-size-fits-all, Electronic Commerce, ITU, IDI, ICT, SME, HSPA, WiMAX, AVE

Abstract

The clear differences between developing nations and developed nations have posed an enormous problem in trying to design a “one-size-fits-all” theory of Electronic Commerce (EC) adoption. Most prior studies have proposed that generalizing findings of developed countries to the context of developing countries are of worry (Rahayu & Day, 2015; J. Tan, Tyler, & Manica, 2007). Table 1 shows the ICT Development Index (benchmarking tools to monitor information society developments worldwide) of some countries that have hosted the earlier literature on EC International Telecommunications Unions (ITU, 2017). These statistics may well indicate that businesses in developed countries and developing countries vary with regard to information technology and EC context. The latest ITU report in 2017 on ICT Development Index, ranks Ghana as the 112th country regarding ICT development in 2016, which shows a slight decline in the ranking compared to 111th in 2015 (the IDI value increased from 3.75 in 2015 to 3.99 in 2016). This may suggest that Ghana does not have appropriate infrastructure for effective e-business compared to countries like Singapore, China and USA.

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Anthony Akai Acheampong Otoo, Li Zhiwen, Charles Oduro Acheampong Otoo, Maxwell Opuni Antwi, " Business Value and E-Commerce Adoption, IInternational Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology(IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 5, Issue 5, pp.262-271, September-October-2019. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/CSEIT195540