SMEs and IT innovation. what's the way forward?

  • Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou*
  • , Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
  • , Oluwasola Oni
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Research on Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) has attracted considerable attention within the information systems community as it has been realised that small companies are significantly different than their lager counterparts. As innovation in the form of IT plays an important factor in the competitiveness of firms, SMEs and IT innovation adoption is an interesting and intriguing subject. In this position paper we try to review existing literature of innovation diffusion and adoption in order to assess its applicability in the context of SMEs. Our results show that exiting innovation diffusion models need to be further developed in order to capture the particularities of IT adoption by small companies. We conclude by offering suggestions for directions that IT innovation studies can take in the context of SMEs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAssociation for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007
Subtitle of host publicationReaching New Heights
Pages2324-2330
Number of pages7
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameAssociation for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights
Volume4

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Library and Information Sciences

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