Research on factors influencing adoption of EDI in Korean companies

This study is to establish the validity of EDI adoption model in Korean companies. The research model hypothesizes that the external factors of a company directly affect EDI adoption and the internal factors of a company moderately affect the direct effect. The external factors of a company consist of economic factors, organizational power factors, and a technological factor. The internal factors of a company consist of the size of the company, innovative tendency of the top management, and maturity of the information technology. In the result of the data analysis – the data were collected from a total of 81 companies in 6 industries – adopted variables are the existence of EDI standard, transaction frequency, inter-organizational bargaining power, and pressure from industry association. Also size of the company and innovative tendency of the top management in a company's internal factors were adopted as moderate variables.