| Author(s) | Othman Ibraheem Alsalloum |
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor of Management Science, Department of Quantitative Methods, College of Administrative Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Email: alsallom@ksu.edu.sa |
| Title | Factors Affecting the Internet Adoption in Riyadh City |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Administrative Sciences. Volume 18, No 1. (2006/1426) |
| Abstract | The objective of this article is to study the use of Internet in Saudi Arabia (SA) by companies and organizations. A survey covered a sample of different profit companies and non-profit organizations in Riyadh City, SA. Several descriptive statistics related to the Internet use and non-use of these companies and organizations are provided. In addition, Chi-Square tests for independence are carried out to see which factors affect the use or non-use of internet. The results showed that there is a relationship between the adoption of the Internet and the type of ownership, annual revenue, budget, size of a company, availability or unavailability of department for computer center. However, the way these factors affect the adoption and the degree of this relationship vary among these factors. Keywords: Saudi Arabia (SA), Companies, Use, Bandwidths, Internet service providers (ISPs), Chi-Square independence tests. |
