Regional Adoption of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce in China
研究基于感知就绪模型和组织间关系理论，分析了权力依赖、合作性及区域经济文化差异对中国企业采纳基于互联网的电子数据交换的影响，对管理者和政策制定者有参考价值。
Adoption of B2B e-commerce is a powerful driver of economic success in developed and developing countries. However, adoption rates in developing countries lag far behind. This paper draws on the perceived e-readiness model and research on the influence of interorganizational relationships and economic-cultural contexts to explain the importance of three factors—interorganizational power dependence, cooperativeness, and regional economic-cultural differences—for achieving higher levels of Internet-based electronic data interchange (EDI) in the developing country of China. We employ survey data to empirically test both the individual and joint influence of these factors. The findings suggest that beyond intraorganizational and external factors, managers and policymakers wanting to promote Internet-based EDI adoption in developing countries must also account for the interorganizational relationships of firms and the economic and cultural circumstances of the regions in which they operate.