Assessment of Determinants of Employee Adoption of eProcurement System

Abstract

Enormous investments have been made by Organizations in Information Technology newline(IT). Productivity gain of the organizations can be achieved by investing in IT newlineinfrastructure which is an important aspect for creating economical values. Asia- newlinePacific Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) spending was $153 billion in 2009 on newlineIT and Telecom. More than 50% of Asia-Pacific spending is done by Chinese, newlineKorean, and Indian small and medium businesses. Productivity (return on investment) newlinegain from IT is not only related with the amount of the investment in IT, but the newlinepotential productivity gains can be more related with individuals acceptance and newlineactual usage of the technology. Uttarakhand Government invested huge amount in egovernance newlineeffort, but the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in a report highlighted newlinethat the project was a total failure in major departments. An extended TAM was newlinedeveloped and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) used to assess the impact of newlineindividual factor (computer self-efficacy), organizational factors (infrastructure newlinesupport and employee training) on intention to adopt and use e-procurement system newlinemediated through perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. newline