TY  - JOUR
T1  - What are Electronic Information Sharing and Integration Critical Success
Factors that Influence the Participation in SMEs?
AU - Mahmood Ahmed, Saad AU - Mohammadi Pasikhani, Aryan AU - Shanudin Zakaria, Mohamad AU - Ibrahim, Huda 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 16
SP  - 4234
EP  - 4240
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2017.4234.4240
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2017.4234.4240
KW  - Information
KW  -data
KW  -
KW  -electronic
KW  -model
KW  -size
KW  -management
AB  - Electronic information sharing and integration among employees in the private sector is one of the
important characteristics to improve decision-making and the quality of businesses. Its purposes are to increase
the level of information integration, quality and accuracy while minimizing the cost and time of sharing the
information. Thus, there is a need to conduct a study to identify the possible strategies and steps to increase
electronic information sharing and integration among employees in SMEs. Technology plays an important role
in information sharing and integration. Therefore, SMEs should provide a good IT infrastructure and employ
people who have good IT skills for such a purpose. However, SMEs encounter integration issues because of
the lack of resources such as financial, data and information. Information integration would be enhanced if
SMEs have had a good electronic information sharing. There exists a high degree of information sharing
between the employees SMEs now. However, the same cannot be said about electronic information sharing
between them which bring difficulties and delay in performing and making decisions. The main objective of this
study is to develop electronic information sharing and integration model for SMEs. Qualitative method has been
utilized to identify the Critical Success Factors (CSFs). The objective of this study is successfully achieved
through sixteen factors that were investigated based on previous studies. From these factors, eight CSFs were
selected by validity. The CSFs are (compatibility, IT capability, size, top management support, risk, cost, policy
and trust). Our model provides significantly contribute to an overall improvement in the way SMEs share
electronic information.
ER  -