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Differential cloud adoption: A comparative case study of large enterprises and SMEs in Germany

Authors: Surya Karunagaran, Saji K Mathew, Franz Lehner

Published in: Information Systems Frontiers | Issue 4/2019

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Cloud computing is widely advertised as a technology-based service model and an emerging business model which is highly beneficial for the adopting organizations. But, academic landscape lacks sufficient empirical studies of cloud adoption at firm-level, and the existing cloud adoption factors are mostly anecdotal in nature. A multiple case study approach was used to extract and compare adoption characteristics of SMEs and large firms in Germany, based on the Technology-Organization and Environment (TOE) framework. The study shows that there exist important differences between SMEs and large enterprises regarding the cloud adoption factors. The results further show that large firms perceive characteristics of the cloud to be more complicated and not easy to implement compared to SMEs which contradicts the popular belief that large firms are forerunners in adopting innovations and, the widely publicized cost benefits of cloud services are perceived to be in favor of SMEs.

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Title: Differential cloud adoption: A comparative case study of large enterprises and SMEs in Germany
Authors: Surya Karunagaran
Saji K Mathew
Franz Lehner
Publication date: 13-08-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Information Systems Frontiers / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 1387-3326
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9419
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-017-9781-z

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