A Study of the Influencing Factors on Hospitals Adoption E-Procurement

• Main Authors: Sheng-Luen Syu, 徐聖倫
• Other Authors: CheChen Liao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65450216273047512455

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 資訊管理所暨醫療資訊管理所 === 98 === In this study, adoption E-procurement as the theme. The model specifies contextual variables such as technological characteristics, organizational characteristics, and environmental characteristics as primary determinants of E-procurement adoption in hospitals. And the model into the trust dimensions to explore hospitals adoption E-procurement of intent have a deeper understanding. In addition, the study also explore all dimensions plays role on hospitals in the extent of e-procurement adoption. We use mail survey questionnaire on this research. A questionnaires survey are administered to collect the data of manager be related to procurement of department and 111 useful responses were retrieved. This research analyzed by Partial Least Squares (PLS) of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to validate the hypotheses. The result revealed that hospitals with certain technological characteristics (relative advantage, compatibility, and complexity), environmental characteristics (institutional pressure and competitive pressure), organizational characteristics (top management support, IT resource, and trading partner readiness) are more likely to adopt E-Procurement. While technological characteristics (relative advantage and compatibility) and organizational characteristics (IT resource) are important determinants of decision to adopt, they do not affect the extent of e-procurement adoption. The extent of E-procurement adoption is mainly determined by environmental characteristics. Finally, the trust has affect the extent of e-procurement adoption.