Abstract
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, easy, and on-demand network access to a shared aggregation of configurable computing sources. Adopting of cloud computing in the pharmaceutical manufacturing is influenced by a group of critical success factors. Therefore, this paper depends on the technological-organizational-environmental (TOE) framework to explore the factors that influence on cloud computing adoption by pharmaceutical industry firms in Jordan through proposing a model for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Companies. Complexity, compatibility, relative advantage, top management support, firm size, technical readiness, competitive pressure, and trading partner pressure, are the eight critical success factors that have been tested. A survey was utilized to collect data from 16 pharmaceutical manufacturing firms in the capital of Jordan- Amman. Relevant hypotheses were developed and examined by multiple regression analysis. The results of the data analysis generally support the suggested model. In summary, the results of this research have shown that all above-mentioned factors were found to have a significant influence on adoption of cloud computing for the pharmaceutical industry in Jordan. This finding of adoption in cloud computing in the pharmaceutical industry will help firms to take into consideration their information for technologies investments.
Highlights
Over the last 10 years, the technology industry has changed rapidly, and this change has appeared in the concept of the manufacturing industry because this sector is facing business challenges like concentrating on improving performance and the ability to control the cost of business doing
The results showed that most of these elements had a significant effect on the adoption of cloud services in these companies (Alshamaila, Y., et al, 2013)[4], the competitive pressure was the only factor that was not found to have any contribution in the process of adopting cloud computing
Gutierrez, A., Boukrami, E. and Lumsden, R. (2015) used the the proposed (TOE) framework to determine which factors impact the decision of managers to adopt cloud computing in the United Kingdom, the results showed that the factors (“competitive pressure, complexity, technology readiness and trading partner pressure) had a positive impact on the adoption of cloud computing (Gutierrez, A., et al, 2015)[21]
Summary
Over the last 10 years, the technology industry has changed rapidly, and this change has appeared in the concept of the manufacturing industry because this sector is facing business challenges like concentrating on improving performance and the ability to control the cost of business doing. Information technology (IT) has the ability to change the business context into planning and organized steps such as creating strategic opportunity and improving operational efficiency and effectiveness and this will happen through applying cloud computing technology. The cloud technologies have become the base for fundamental business innovation and new business models along with decreasing functioning costs. The cloud computing is about a technological improvement of data centers, and an essential change in how information technology (IT) is provisioned and utilized, in a time where competition in a business market increasing rapidly and all companies are trying to be up to date so as to produce new services and products for their business needs
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