An exploratory study to understand the critical factors affecting the decision to adopt cloud computing in Taiwan hospital

•To investigate the factors to adopt cloud computing in Taiwan hospitals industry.•To integrate the TOE framework and HOT-fit model for the study.•A significant difference exist in CIO innovativeness, data security, compatibility.•Important dimensions are technology and then human, organization, and...

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Vydáno v:International journal of information management Ročník 34; číslo 1; s. 28 - 36
Hlavní autoři: Lian, Jiunn-Woei, Yen, David C., Wang, Yen-Ting
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2014
Elsevier
Elsevier Science Ltd
Témata:
Adoption of innovations
Cloud computing
Critical factor
Data integrity
Decisions
Developing countries
Environmental aspects
Exact sciences and technology
Hospitals
HOT-fit model
Information and communication sciences
Information science. Documentation
Information service management
Information system management
Information technology
LDCs
Library and information science. General aspects
Medical decision making
Research design
Sciences and techniques of general use
Security
Studies
Technology
Technology adoption
TOE framework
Use and user studies. Information needs
Taiwan
TOE framework
Cloud computing
Critical factor
HOT-fit model
Computer science
Hospital
Decision
ISSN:0268-4012, 1873-4707
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Shrnutí:•To investigate the factors to adopt cloud computing in Taiwan hospitals industry.•To integrate the TOE framework and HOT-fit model for the study.•A significant difference exist in CIO innovativeness, data security, compatibility.•Important dimensions are technology and then human, organization, and environment. The purpose of this study is to investigate the critical factors that will affect the decision to adopt cloud computing technology in developing countries, specifically in Taiwan's hospital industry. This study mainly integrates the TOE (Technology-Organization-Environment) framework and HOT-fit (Human-Organization-Technology fit) model to understand this issue. Information was collected by employing a questionnaire research design to hospital CIOs in Taiwan. The obtained results indicate that the 5 most critical factors are data security, perceived technical competence, cost, top manager support, and complexity. Further, among the proposed four dimensions the most important one is technology followed by human, organizational, and environmental factors. Finally, the results show that significant differences exist in CIO innovativeness, data security, compatibility, top manager support, adequate resource, and perceived industry pressure across different adopting groups. For practitioners, this study identifies key factors for hospitals to make an adoption decision toward cloud computing technology. As for academia, this study can be provided as a useful reference for future studies in this subject field.
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ISSN:0268-4012
1873-4707
DOI:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2013.09.004