Yangmi Lim
Maternal Involvement in Education, Bicultural Acceptance, and School Adjustment: An Autoregressive Cross-Lagged Modeling Study among Adolescents from Multicultural Families
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
importance information technology businesses widely acknowledged yet large businesses using computers time small businesses slow adopting literature technological innovation suggests two main classes variables important determining adoption innovation individual characteristics organizational characteristics viewed technological innovation two classes variables possible determinants adoption paper examines effect three characteristics chief executive officer ceo three organizational characteristics adoption three ceo characteristics studied ceo innovativeness ceo attitude towards adoption ceo knowledge three organizational characteristics studied business size competitiveness environment information intensity six hypotheses formulated tested using data collected sample 166 small businesses results suggest notwithstanding business size ceo characteristics important factors affecting adoption small businesses small businesses likely adopt ceos innovative positive attitude towards adoption possess greater knowledge