Information systems in the practice of enterprises activity

Abstract

The article discusses the ability of enterprises to adopt and use information systems (IS). The classical adoption theories are tending to neglect market and industry characteristics as important factors in the adoption decision. In literature different factors (comparing and contrasting factors) that influence the adoption of IS are suggested for benchmarking. These factors alone, or in combination, may influence the adoption effects for various technologies differently. Talking about complex and continual adoption, ideas from complexity theory are important. In the paper the set of factors are used to explore complex organizations and industry adoption patterns. The analysis of literature shows that adoption of information systems should be understood and analyzed from the perspectives.Therefore, it is important to reveal the ability of enterprises to adopt information systems in the current challenging conditions, to evaluate, if enterprises, taking into accountthe new circumstances, are able to respond and adapt to these challenges adequately. So, the paper presents the results of investigations in this context. The aim of the research is to propose framework that incorporates factors determining the ability ofenterprises to adopt information systems. The study presented in the paper contains three different aspects. First, the adoption of information systems is disclosed from different perspectives. Second, a theoretical framework that incorporates factors determining the ability of companies to adopt information systems is presented. Third, the application of framework for manufacturing and trade enterprises, located in 32 world countries, is given. The article is based on comparative and multiple criteria analysis. For the suggested framework, the set of criteria and the multiple criteria evaluation method (COPRAS) is used.