IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijbisy/v49y2025i3p390-411.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The influence of HR practices and diffusion of innovation theory towards adoption of internet of things in SMEs

Author

Listed:
  • Mohammad Ibrahim Kamel Sweiss

Abstract

The advent of digitalisation and internet of things (IOT) has changed existing values of businesses and organisations. Although IOT accelerates business performance however, the adoption of IOT is scarce among SMEs employees. This study assimilates diffusion of innovation theory and HR practices to investigate employee behaviour towards adoption of IOT. The framework of this research is tested with 274 responses. Data were analysed with structural equation modelling (SEM). Results indicate that exogenous variables had shown substantial variance in determining employee attitude (R2 51.1%) and adoption of IOT (R2 55.2%). The findings of the structural equation model had revealed that results demonstrability will strengthen the relationship between employee attitude and adoption of IOT. This study disclosed that factors such as compatibility, innovativeness, training and development, work environment, reward and recognition and employee attitude are the most influential factors to enhance employee adoption behaviour towards IOT in SMEs.

Suggested Citation

  • Mohammad Ibrahim Kamel Sweiss, 2025. "The influence of HR practices and diffusion of innovation theory towards adoption of internet of things in SMEs," International Journal of Business Information Systems, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 49(3), pages 390-411.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbisy:v:49:y:2025:i:3:p:390-411
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=146981
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijbisy:v:49:y:2025:i:3:p:390-411. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=172 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.