Title:	E-READINESS ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR B2C PUBLISHING COMPANIES TOWARD E-PUBLISHING
Author(s):	Samrand Toufani , Gholam Ali Montazer
ISBN:	978-972-8924-78-2
Editors:	Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2009
Edition:	1
Keywords:	E-Readiness, B2C, E-Publishing, Confirmatory factor Analysis, Publishing Companies
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	211
Last Page:	218
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	During recent years Information Technology has made several fundamental changes in different business areas. For instance, publishing industry is experiencing a dramatic change affecting on the whole society which would be as great as that of the development of printing press. It has revolutionized the publishing industry and given rise to a new phenomenon called electronic publishing (e-publishing). E-publishing aims at generating, maintaining, keeping, and diffusing electronic data using computers and information networks. It provides the developing countries with appropriate opportunities for development and progress. These countries should reap the benefits of e-publishing and have access to necessary technology. E-readiness assessments are meant to guide development efforts by providing some suitable tools for comparison and gauging progress. Several e-readiness assessment tools have been created and used by different groups. But so far, critical issues for e-readiness assessment for publishing companies have not been systematically investigated. Some existing studies have derived their critical factors from macro perspectives at country level and have not considered the important factors at micro level for SMEs in an integrated way. This research is probably the first to support a perspective of critical issues for e-readiness assessment in publishing companies based on macro models. It will give a good insight which expectantly could be helpful for managers to consider the critical issues for e-readiness assessment of their organization in an effective way. Therefore, we will review the e-readiness assessment models proposed for organizations at macro scale and then identify the critical factors for ereadiness assessment of publishing companies. The extracted factors are Technical Infrastructure, Economical and Financial issues, Social, Management, and Human Resources which are achieved through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis at the micro perspective of some of the Iranian e-publishers.
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