Antecedents for organizational readiness for emerging technologies : Findings from South Africa - A developing country

ISBN-13: 9783659285349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 128 str.

Abiodun Ogunyemi

Opis

The lack of unifying frameworks to investigate emerging technologies and changing practices in organizations remains a major challenge to the Information Systems body of knowledge. This study developed and validated a new conceptual readiness framework NOIIE (an acronym for National e-readiness, Organizational preparedness, Industrial relationships, Internal resistance and External influence), for investigating organizational readiness for emerging technologies and applications. Server virtualisation was used as a pilot technology to investigate the antecedents for the readiness of 83 South African organizations for emerging technologies through a quantitative approach and an online survey. The readiness of South African organizations for server virtualisation is impressive, as 73% of organizations surveyed have implemented server virtualisation to one extent or another. The NOIIE framework was validated and could be further developed and used to investigate other emerging technologies in organizations in developing countries

O autorze

Ogunyemi, AbiodunAbiodun A. Ogunyemi, MCom: Obtained his Master's Degree in Information Systems from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has six years of expenrience in IT infrastructure support, systems administration and endpoint systems security. He looks forward to his doctoral degree and has flair for emerging technologies adoption, among others.