A Multivariate Probit Analysis of Korean Firms Information System Adoption: An Empirical Analysis on the Determinants of the Adoption and Complementarity Among the Information Systems

Jae Young Choi, Yeonbae Kim (), Yungman Jun and Yunhee Kim ()

No 200926, TEMEP Discussion Papers from Seoul National University; Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program (TEMEP)

Abstract: As the ICT industry continues to grow, firms worldwide continue to adopt and use enterprise information systems. Although there is some existing research on the determinants of firms¡¯ information system adoption, most such studies do not take into account a firm¡¯s adoption of more than one information system (multiple adoption behaviour). Moreover, small sample sizes have hindered the ability of many previous empirical studies of information system adoption to report strongly reliable results. Using a Bayesian multivariate probit approach, this study examines a sample of 438 Korean companies covering a variety of business areas, including manufacturing, to investigate the determinants of firms¡¯ adoption of and the substitutionary patterns among four major information systems: enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), e-buy, and groupware. As a result, the epidemic effect generally outweighs the size effect and putting more effort into the intensity of information strategy planning is very influential on the adoption of information systems. And a relatively strong complementary relationship exists between ERP adoption and CRM adoption, and between e-buy adoption and groupware adoption.

Keywords: Information system adoption; Bayesian multivariate probit; ERP; CRM; e-buy; groupware; Korea. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2009-10, Revised 2009-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ict
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in Emerald, Industrial Management and Data Systems (later version of this paper)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:snv:dp2009:200926

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in TEMEP Discussion Papers from Seoul National University; Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program (TEMEP) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jorn Altmann ().