The Influence of Individual-level Cultural Orientation on ERP System Adoption

As the global implementation of IS becomes popular, cross-cultural IS research is gaining interests from both academic researchers and practitioners. This research-in-progress paper applies individual-level measurement of cultural orientation provided by Dorfman and Howell (1988) to the recent findings of motivation and computer self-efficacy research in order to predict ERP system adoption. A survey will be administered to the Glovia International ERP system user group, and the results will be used to check the individual-level factors of system adoption in two different countries (U.S. and Japan). The direct effect of individual-level cultural orientation on the usefulness and ease of use as well as mediating effect through enjoyment, personal innovativeness of IT, and computer self-efficacy will be tested. Data will be collected before the conference and presented at the conference using Partial Least Square (PLS) technique.