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Cloud computing · Systematic literature review using the TOE framework

A Systematic Review of Organizational Factors Impacting Cloud-based Technology Adoption Using Technology-Organization-Environment Framework

Internet of Things · 2021

Ali Al Hadwer, Madjid Tavana, Dan Gillis, Davar Rezania

Summary

Top-management support, relative advantage, cloud complexity, and competitive pressure were the most critical factors associated with organizational cloud-adoption attitudes; security was heavily emphasized in prior work.

For your marketing

Possible founder application

Use a TOE-based enterprise-sales checklist: prove relative advantage and security, reduce complexity, secure executive sponsorship, and address competitive/environmental pressure.

Reported result

What the study found

Top-management support, relative advantage, cloud complexity, and competitive pressure were the most critical factors associated with organizational cloud-adoption attitudes; security was heavily emphasized in prior work.

Research question

What the authors investigated

How does the study’s stated design explain its reported outcome in this setting?

Design

Systematic literature review using the TOE framework

Sample and setting

Organizational cloud-adoption literature; review of studies from the preceding seven years (corpus size not stated on publisher page)

Scope and transfer

Limitations to keep in view

Review conclusions depend on the search, inclusion, and coding decisions; it synthesizes heterogeneous mostly survey-based studies rather than estimating one causal effect.

Research sources

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