A construction enterprise's readiness level in implementing e- procurement: a system engineering assessment model

Abstract There have been some popular research objectives by scholars on e-procurement as to find causes to explain why the rate and speed of adoption is frequently very slow or to find management solutions related to business process reengineering, human resource development and management, technology management, etc. Our present study was pursed to develop a theoretical impact-role-factor assessment model to assist assessment the importance of government, organization, and technology on a construction enterprises’ e-procurement implementation readiness level in developing countries. The model is built based on a Government-Organization-Technology framework and positing the process of an enterprise's readiness collection is dynamic; the readiness level is changed, increasingly or decreasingly, over time. The proposed model consists of ten the constructs with eleven the hypothesized influential relationships. The conceptual model must be tested empirically in further researches.

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