An examination of the organizational factors that influence the decision to adopt cloud computing by Small and Medium Enterprises in Kampala

dc.contributor.author	Dr. Kehinde Kenny Onayemi
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-24T15:34:25Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-24T15:34:25Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.identifier.uri	https://pub.nkumbauniversity.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/948
dc.description.abstract	The paper examined the organizational factors that informed decisions to adopt cloud computing by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Kampala, Uganda. The paper is an outcome of a study conducted in Kampala in 2022. The study was both descriptive and explanatory and relied on the quantitative approach of data collection and analysis. The data were collected from 416 SMEs. It was found out that the benefits of cloud computing (Mean = 3.68, St. Dev = .773), the relevance of cloud computing to the organization (Mean = 3.58, St. Dev = .649), unreliability of insourced IT services (Mean = 3.74, St. Dev = .916), the need to backup organizational data (Mean = 3.87, St. Dev = .696)., managerial support for cloud computing (Mean = 3.29, St. Dev = .900), among others—drove decisions in organizations to adopt cloud computing.	en_US
dc.publisher	Social Science and Humanities Journal	en_US
dc.subject	Cloud computing, SMEs in Kampala, organizational factors	en_US
dc.title	An examination of the organizational factors that influence the decision to adopt cloud computing by Small and Medium Enterprises in Kampala	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US