| Summary: | 碩士 === 開南大學 === 資訊及電子商務學系 === 95 === ABSTRACT
As paperless trading becomes a global trend, Taiwan’s Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) introduced the “Trade Facilitation Plan,” and created the electronic one-stop platform “FTNet” which went on-line in 2005. Besides being a response to Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s (APEC's) plan toward a cross-border paperless trading environment, it is also a mean to upgrade the competitive edge of Taiwan's trade-related sector (which also includes but not limited to logistics and banking players). Being an open economy, Taiwan’s trade-related sector is also under pressure to adopt paperless trading practice to improve its competitiveness and to link with the outside world. This paper uses the Technology Acceptance Model 2 (TAM2) as the theoretical foundation and examines the impact of various factors such as transaction cost, competitiveness edge and institutional influence on the adoption of paperless trading practice by the trade-related sector in Taiwan. Through survey and interviews, we conclude that indeed paperless trading practice can effectively simplify and shorten transaction process as well as reduce the cost of processing a transaction. Taiwanese companies are also influenced by the adoption of paperless trading practice outside Taiwan. Many Taiwanese companies also feel that adoption of paperless trading increases their competitive edge and boost their image as a progressive companies.
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