Explanatory Factors Determining of ICT Adoption Level in Tunisian Textile Companies

Imen Benabderrahmen¹, Mohsen Bensalem Brahmi^2, and Mourad Hmida³

¹Faculty of Economics and Managemenet, University of Sfax, Tunisia.

²Higher Institute of Business Administration Tunisia

³Avicenne Private Business School Tunisia, ISFF Sousse Tunisia

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Imen Benabderrahmen, Mohsen Bensalem Brahmi and Mourad Hmida. Explanatory Factors Determining of ICT Adoption Level in Tunisian Textile Companies. Journal of Behavioural Economics, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Accounting and Transport. 2016; 4(1):1-7. doi: 10.12691/jbe-4-1-1

Abstract

The objective assigned by this article is to show that the adoption of ICTs is not only influenced by the traditional factors of the technological distribution but also by the organizational factors and néo--schumpeteriens. From a sample of 110 companies of Tunisian textile sector, we study, in the first place, the level of adoption of ICTs the companies of textile industry while most of the recent studies favored measures of the stock of IT capital or the automation of the tasks. In the second place, our econometric analysis concerns, besides the traditional factors quoted by the epidemic models and the probit, two groups of factors identified recently by the theory of the complementarity and the theory néo-schumpetérienne. Our empirical method handles the biases usually met in the equations of technological adoption as well as in the tests of the organizational complementarity. Our results, further to our questionnaire, show that the distribution of information technologies and communication depends more on organizational factors and néo-schumpetériens than on classic factors.

Keywords:
ICT factors Tunisian textile companies

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