A Study on Decision Factors in Adopting the Mobile Business in Taiwan’s Electronic Industry

• Main Authors: Yin-Ju Chen, 陳盈儒
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25181478978136978574

碩士 === 大同大學 === 資訊經營學系(所) === 92 === After the previous wave of implementing e-Business, utilizing Mobile Business has now become a new trend for enterprises to raise their competitiveness, which has led to the growing demand for mobile applications among enterprises and their employees. By making use of wireless and mobile communications technologies to transmit mobilized data from enterprise information system to various handheld platforms, members from inside and outside enterprise are able to exploit Wireless Terminal Devices to conduct business activities without the limitation of location and time. Thus, it is a worthy topic to probe what factor is crucial to affect the enterprise adoption behavior of M-Business. The objective of this research is primary to discuss the decision-making factors that affect the enterprises to adopt M-Business, after compiling documents from the past concerning the innovative adoption of new technologies, and by basing on the electronic industry of Taiwan’s region as an example. This study inquires the affecting factors on adoption decisions from the following three dimensions: environment characteristics, organization characteristics, and innovation attributes. This study reveals that: 1. In regard to the mobilization of the enterprises, 51.5% of sample companies have adopted M-Business. The result demonstrates that enterprises have valued the importance of the mobilization widely. 2. There are five significant factors—“Organization's attitude about introducing new technology” ,” The level of implementation of IT in the industry”,” The relative advantage of new technology”,” Maturity level of new technology”, “The burden brought by new technology”.-- whether adopters and non-adopter have significant difference viewpoints about factors that affect adoption. 3. There are three factors--”Organization's attitude about introducing new technology “of Organization Characteristics, as well as “The relative advantage of new technology” and “The burden brought by new technology” of Innovation Attributes can significantly affect the adoption of M-Business in Taiwan’s electronic companies. In addition, based on the result of data analysis, this study has proposed the following suggestions with regards to the enterprise and supplier of the mobilization Business.