Understanding the roles of institutional pressures and organizational innovativeness in contextualized transformation toward e-business: Evidence from agricultural firms. (April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lin, Jiabao; Luo, Zhimei; Luo, Xin
• Is Part Of: International journal of information management. Volume 51(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-04
• Subjects: e-business transformation -- Innovation adoption -- Agricultural firms -- Institutional theory -- Mimetic pressure -- Coercive pressure -- Normative pressure; Social sciences -- Information services -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; Information science -- Periodicals; Management information systems -- Periodicals; Knowledge management -- Periodicals; Sciences sociales -- Documentation, Services de -- Périodiques; Sciences sociales -- Recherche -- Périodiques; Sciences de l'information -- Périodiques; Systèmes d'information de gestion -- Périodiques; Information science; Management information systems; Social sciences -- Information services; Social sciences -- Research; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 025.52068
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.10.010
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0268-4012

Abstract

Highlights: We uncovered factors affecting transformation to e-business in agricultural firms in China. We investigated institutional pressures on benefits and barriers for e-business transformation. We collected data from 437 agricultural firms in China. Organizational innovativeness plays a role in the transformation process. Abstract: E-business is of increasing significance in promoting agricultural economic development and restructuring and upgrading, yet agricultural firms' transformation toward e-business in China is at a low level. To gain insights to why and how agricultural firms intend to accept or resist the revolutionary innovation of e-business, this study draws on the perspective of institutional theory and organizational innovativeness to develop an integrative model to fathom factors affecting transformation to e-business in agricultural firms in China. By analyzing the impacts of institutional pressures on perceived benefits, perceived barriers, and subsequent e-business transformation intention, the empirical results indicate that mimetic pressure, coercive pressure, and normative pressure have different levels of positive effects on perceived benefits; normative pressure has a significantly negative impact on perceived barriers, while mimetic pressure and coercive pressure have no significant effect on perceived barriers. Perceived benefits and organizational innovativeness have significantly positive impacts on e-business transformation intention, while perceived barriers have no significant effect. Perceived benefits play a partial mediating role between institutional pressures and e-business transformation intention.