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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Research on the Relationship between the Internet Usages and the Organizational |
| Performance in the Taiwanese E-commerce Business Organization |
| Jui-lin Wang and Feng-Hsiung Hou |
| Hsiuping Institute of Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C. |
| Nanya Institute of Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C. |
| The purpose of this research was to explore the possible relationship between the Internet usage and the |
| organizational performance in the Taiwanese e-commerce business organizations. The hypothesis for this research |
| was: There was a significant relationship between the Internet usage and the organizational performance in the |
| Taiwanese e-commerce business organizations. The method employed quantitative research method in conducting |
| this study was measure the use of Internet in various Taiwanese e-commerce business organizations and provided an |
| overview of the method of Internet use in e-commerce business organizations’ organizational performances. The |
| research participants were 50 own-ers/managers in Taiwanese e-commerce business organizations. The Spearman |
| Rank Correlation Coef-ficient and descriptive statistics were used to test the research hypothesis. Research result |
| supported the research hypothesis that there was a significant relationship between the Internet usage and the |
| organiza-tional performance in the Taiwanese e-commerce business organizations. Research result also indicated |
| that this relationship between the Internet usage and the organizational performance was positive. Re-sults showed |
| that Taiwanese e-commerce business organizations’ owners/managers were agreed and strongly agree for there was |
| significant impact of Internet usage and organizational performance in their e-commerce business organizations. |
| Keywords: E-commerce Business Organization, Internet Usage, Organizational Performance |
ISSN
1535-07-03
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