Modeling Green eBusiness Adoption among Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises in Tanzania

dc.contributor.authorMasele, Juma James
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-22T14:20:05Z
dc.date.available2021-04-22T14:20:05Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-07
dc.description.abstractThis study was set to model Green eBusiness adoption among SMTEs in Tanzania, right from sourcing, operations, and to end-of-life-management. The study employed the use of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to analyze quantitative data collected from 240 respondents selected from 80 SMTEs in Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, Arusha, and Zanzibar, who were in operations for at least three years. Although there were twelve hypotheses formulated, only seven hypotheses (with constructs Self-Efficacy, Effort Expectancy, Facilitating Conditions, Coercive Pressures, Intention to Use both to commitment and to Green eBusiness, and Commitment towards Green eBusiness adoption) were revealed significant. Others (with constructs Performance Expectancy, Organizational Support, Green Entrepreneurial Attitude, Normative Pressure, and Mimetic Pressure) were deemed insignificant and thus rejected. These findings imply that, if a firm is to adopt Green eBusiness, the technology behind it has to be easy to use, which inculcate an individual’s self efficacy to use Green eBusiness, drivers that influence Intention to Use. On the other hand, the presence of Facilitating Conditions is important to persuade the new adopters, while, the existence of Coercive Pressure is important in order to reinforce the “green” behaviors related to use of IT and E-Business in general.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMasele, Juma James (2019) "Modeling Green eBusiness Adoption among Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises in Tanzania," The African Journal of Information Systems: 11 : (3) , 209-231. Available at: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/ajis/vol11/iss3/4en_US
dc.identifier.issnISSN 1936-0282
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5663
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisher: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/ajis/vol11/iss3/4en_US
dc.subjectGreen eBusiness; Adoption; Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises; SMTEs; Tanzaniaen_US
dc.titleModeling Green eBusiness Adoption among Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises in Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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