Accounting Information System (AIS) Adoption in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Northern Ghana | Chapter 3 | Contemporary Research in Business, Management and Economics Vol. 1

 Accounting Information Systems (AIS), a technology-based system, provide decision-makers with timely and reliable information. The study examines the factors influencing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) AIS adoption in Northern Ghana, where little is known about it. Direct content analysis was used to collect data, and summative content analysis was used to generate research findings. A detailed literature review was conducted first, followed by a problem confirmation process involving academic researchers. The study concentrated on the factors that influence Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) AIS adoption in Ghana. For the sake of credibility, data was collected from previous studies using prominent educational databases. Studies on AIS adoption in Ghana have revealed a lack of effectiveness. Rather of being integrated, adoption theories are either based on technology, organisations, and environment or based on humans, organisations, and technology; however, neither of these ideas integrates human, organisation, technology, and the environment.  The study found a link between AIS adoption and SMEs' performance as measured by IT officers' innovativeness, competency knowledge, IT infrastructure, managerial structure, organizational readiness, and competitive pressure from human, organizational, technological, and environmental dimensions. This address SMEs adoption of AIS factors. The study contributes to SMEs AIS adoption which is relatively new in Ghana. It also contributes to the sparse literature on SMEs' AIS adoption by employing four dimensions to widen knowledge. However, to make data more representative, future studies in this field should involve samples from other regions.

Author(s) Details:

Fuseini Mahama,
Azman Hashim International Business School (AHIBS), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

Halina Mohamed Dahlan,
Information Systems Department, Azman Hashim International Business School (AHIBS), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

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Economic Development and Small Businesses in Japan | Chapter 11 | Insights into Economics and Management Vol. 12

 Because of World War II, Japan's economy lost the majority of its industrial production force. Japan, on the other hand, saw fast economic expansion from 1955 onwards, eventually joining the group of the world's most developed countries in the early 1970s. From 1955 through the early 1970s, the United States experienced a period of rapid economic growth. There are differing viewpoints on the mechanisms that enabled Japan to achieve such high economic growth, dubbed the "Economic Miracle." It is possible to say that Japan's postwar economic progress was founded on technological innovation and financial assistance from the United States. which established Japan's place in the global economy, bank loans, and the entrance of foreign technology It goes without saying that the "The high expansion of postwar Japanese capitalism was not achieved solely by large corporations. On the contrary, it would have been difficult to accomplish such tremendous development without small firms, particularly in their positions as subcontractors, which has attracted international attention." (Nomura, 126; 1981) The goal of this essay is to clarify the function of small enterprises in the economic development process.

Author (S) Details

Katsuhiko Hirasawa
Nihon University, Japan.

Pei Xiong
Nihon University, Japan.

Yutaka Takakubo
Nihon University, Japan.

Jin Yu
Hohai University, China.

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