Department of E-business & Technology Management Seminar Series Archive Seminar Title Top Management Support and Diffusion of E-procurement Systems in High Power Distance Cultures: the Empirical Evidence from China

This paper develops and empirically tests a research framework that models the role of technological, organizational and environmental factors in organizational intention toward E-procurement systems. The partial least square analysis of survey data of 211 firms in China demonstrates that technological factors including perceived efficiency benefits and perceived ease, organizational factors including B2B commerce expertise, information sharing culture, and top management support, and an environmental factor, business partner pressure, shape in different ways organizational intention to adopt and to continue with e-procurement. The findings highlight the important role of top management support in the adoption and continued use of e-procurement in high power distance countries. Date of Presentation 4/6/2012