Cloud computing adoption in Ghana; accounting for institutional factors
| Autor: | Lovestone Mamattah, Joseph K. Adjei, Samuel Adams |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sociology and Political Science
business.industry 020209 energy 05 social sciences Digital transformation Developing country Human Factors and Ergonomics Accounting Cloud computing 02 engineering and technology Variance (accounting) Structural equation modeling Education 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Spite Normative Business and International Management business Institutional theory 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Technology in Society. 65:101583 |
| ISSN: | 0160-791X |
| Popis: | In spite of increasing adoption of Cloud Computing (CC) by organizations in developed countries, the rate of adoption of the technology in sub-Saharan Africa has stagnated, although it has the potential to accelerate the speed of digital transformation. This paper contributes to the extant literature in this light by examining how the institutional environment influences the adoption of cloud computing. We investigated the role of mimetic, coercive and normative institutional pressures in predicting adoption outcomes of cloud computing among organizations in the region. After testing three main hypotheses and ten corollaries, and analyzing data collected from seventy-nine organizations with the partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), the study found that the institutional pressures (mimetic, coercive and normative) explain 27% of the variance in cloud computing adoption. The mimetic – CC adoption path coefficient of 0.35 made the biggest contribution to the model while the normative – CC adoption path was the least contributor with a path coefficient of 0.18. The findings explain the determinants of adoption of CC in environments of low adoption and institutional challenges. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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