TY - GEN
T1 - Information technology adoption by small businesses in minority and ethnic communities
AU - Qureshi, Sajda
AU - York, Anne S.
PY - 2008/9/16
Y1 - 2008/9/16
N2 - Information systems adoption by small businesses often is viewed as a basic building block of economic development. Yet, the components that impact business success and thus economic development are mostly unexplored, especially within the context of minority and ethnic communities, both domestically and internationally. Given that IT adoption in small businesses is very often the domain of the business owner, an investigation of how the attributes of individual business owners and the context in which they are embedded is essential. This paper develops an integrative model of the role that IT adoption plays in business success and the economic development process within minority and ethnic communities. The contribution of this paper lies in providing an integrative model of IT adoption that is relevant to small businesses in minority and ethnic communities and a set of theoretical propositions to facilitate adoption of IT in these communities.
AB - Information systems adoption by small businesses often is viewed as a basic building block of economic development. Yet, the components that impact business success and thus economic development are mostly unexplored, especially within the context of minority and ethnic communities, both domestically and internationally. Given that IT adoption in small businesses is very often the domain of the business owner, an investigation of how the attributes of individual business owners and the context in which they are embedded is essential. This paper develops an integrative model of the role that IT adoption plays in business success and the economic development process within minority and ethnic communities. The contribution of this paper lies in providing an integrative model of IT adoption that is relevant to small businesses in minority and ethnic communities and a set of theoretical propositions to facilitate adoption of IT in these communities.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2008.204
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2008.204
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51449089951
SN - 0769530753
SN - 9780769530758
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
BT - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2008, HICSS
T2 - 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2008, HICSS
Y2 - 7 January 2008 through 10 January 2008
ER -