Understanding e-Procurement System Benefits Using Organisational Adoption Motivation Lens: A Case Study

Abstract

Adoption of e-procurement systems and the likely benefits that organisations can achieve have been widely discussed. However, what still remains puzzling is the variation in benefits that organisations experience from the adoption of even the same e-procurement system. A few e-commerce scholars applied the factor-based approach to help explain difference in e-procurement benefits, but with limited success. In this paper, we propose an alternative theoretical framework (known as EPAMS) that draws inspirations from the notion of 'organisational motivation' for Inter-Organisational System (IOS) adoption context. Our framework relates organisational adoption motivations for eprocurement systems ..