The Diffusion of E-commerce in Developing Economies: A Resource-based Approach - Hardcover

Zeinab Karake Shalhoub; Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843765144 ISBN 13: 9781843765141

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

The authors of this unique volume provide a timely and valuable perspective on how technology and the Internet revolution are changing business and spurring development across the world, especially in emerging countries. Utilizing a framework grounded in rigorous theory, they provide a fine-grained understanding of electronic commerce adoption processes by public and private sector entities in developing countries. In so doing, they consider how each exchange encounter is shaped by, and in turn shapes, relational characteristics that form the basis for growth and development.

Using a resource-based view of economies, the authors hypothesize that differences in the adoption of electronic commerce technologies in developing economies can be attributed to a sense-and-respond capability of governments with respect to new technologies, which they term 'technological opportunism'. One of their main objectives is to establish the distinctiveness of technology opportunities from related constructs, such as innovativeness, and show that it offers a significantly better explanation of technology adoption and diffusion than do existing constructs. The book examines a number of developing countries' experiences with electronic government, bringing real life experience to the adoption of an e-government model by looking at the issue from strategic as well as operational perspectives.

The volume's ground-breaking research and conclusions will be of great interest to professionals, researchers and students in the areas of e-commerce and economic development; government officials of developing and newly industrialized countries contemplating e-government initiatives; and information technology managers.

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About the Author

Zeinab Karake, Clinical Professor of Information Systems, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, US and Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister of Foreign Trade, United Arab Emirates

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843765144
• ISBN 13: 9781843765141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288