Model of IT Adoption for Increasing the MSME's Competitive Advantage  

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Nurhadi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah nasional - terakreditasi DIKTI
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Economics, Business, & Accountancy: ventura vol. 16 no. 1 (Apr. 2013), page 13-26.
Topik: Adoption; Information Technology; Competitiveness
Fulltext: 122-437-1-PB.pdf (269.34KB)

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In the emerging global market context, the adoption and use of information technology (IT) is widely seen as critical for the competitiveness of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). This study aims to describe: the degree of IT adoption; the reasons to use IT; the inhibiting factor of IT adoption; and the pattern of IT adoption for MSMEs. This study is a descriptive research. The population is MSMEs registered in the Bag and Suitcases Industry Cooperative (INTAKO) Sidoarjo. Sampling method was a purposive sampling. Data was collected using interview technique and questionnaire, than analyzed by the descriptive statistical techniques. The results show that the adoption of IT for MSMEs is relatively low. The main reasons for MSMEs to adopt the IT are the benefits of IT to increase company competitiveness and performance and the encouragement of external factors. The inhibiting factors for MSMEs to adopt IT are cost and human resources constraints, and the complexity of IT. Four factors determining the IT adoption for MSMEs are individual characteristics, characteristics of technology, corporate context and environmental context. Furthermore, the low degree of IT adoption of MSMEs lead the IT adoption can not provide a significant improvement of the enterprise competitiveness.

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