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Social media, mobile, analytics, and cloud: integration and value creation

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posted on 2022-03-28, 01:10 authored by Rafat Sumreen
This study examined how integrating two or more SMAC technologies (social media, mobile, analytics and cloud) add business value to organisations. Data was collected from fourteen business and technology stakeholders using semi-structured interviews to investigate critical success factors and barriers of adoption and integration of SMAC technologies. The data was analysed using a conceptual framework using the technology-organisation-environment (TOE) model integrated with value creation theories: value chains, value shops, and value networks. The findings show that relative advantage, compatibility, management support, technology competence, and competitive pressure were critical success factors for the integration of two or more SMAC technologies. Complexity, security, and government regulations were barriers to the integration of two or more SMAC technologies. Firm size was both a critical success factor and a barrier. The findings show that the integration of two or more SMAC technologies improve efficiency, resource optimisation, speed, business agility, competitive advantage, and enhanced customer experience. One possible limitation of this study was that only organisations in Australia were included. The results may be different in other countries. A second limitation was that the limited number of value chain organisations compared to value shops and value networks. Future research into value creation from the integration of various interrelated digital technologies integration (e.g., analytics & Internet of Things, cloud & artificial intelligence). The conceptual framework could be used in future studies to examine emerging and new applications of existing technologies to examine the integration of technologies and how these technologies add value in value chains, value shops, and value networks.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Conceptual framework -- 4. Research design and methodology -- 5. Findings -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions and future works --8. References -- 9. Appendices.

Notes

Empirical thesis. Bibliography: pages 84-99

Awarding Institution

Macquarie University

Degree Type

Thesis MRes

Degree

MRes, Macquarie University, Macquarie Business School, Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance

Department, Centre or School

Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance

Year of Award

2019

Principal Supervisor

Yvette Blount

Additional Supervisor 1

Mauricio Marrone

Rights

Copyright Rafat Sumreen 2019. Copyright disclaimer: http://mq.edu.au/library/copyright

Language

English

Extent

1 online resource (109 pages) tables

Former Identifiers

mq:70984 http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1269672