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Analysis of Factors Influencing Hospitals’ Implementation of a Green E-Procurement System Using a Cloud Model
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 16, Issue 24
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2019.
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Abstract
- Currently, the green procurement activities of private hospitals in Taiwan follow the self-built green electronic-procurement (e-procurement) system. This requires professional personnel to take the time to regularly update the green specification and software and hardware of the e-procurement system, and the information system maintenance cost is high. In the case of a green e-procurement system crash, the efficiency of green procurement activities for hospitals is affected. If the green e-procurement can be moved to a convenient and trusty cloud computing model, this will enhance the efficiency of procurement activities and reduce the information maintenance cost for private hospitals. However, implementing a cloud model is an issue of technology innovation application and the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework has been widely applied as the theoretical framework in technology innovation application. In addition, finding the weight of factors is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) issue. Therefore, the present study first collected factors influencing implementation of the cloud mode together with the TOE as the theoretical framework, by reviewing the literature. Therefore, an expert questionnaire was designed and distributed to top managers of 20 private hospitals in southern Taiwan. The fuzzy analysis hierarchical process (FAHP), which is a MCDM tool, finds the weights of the factors influencing private hospitals in southern Taiwan when they implement a cloud green e-procurement system. The research results can enable private hospitals to successfully implement a green e-procurement system through a cloud model by optimizing resource allocation according to the weight of each factor. In addition, the results of this research can help cloud service providers of green e-procurement understand users&rsquo<br />needs and develop relevant cloud solutions and marketing strategies.
- Subjects :
- Process management
Process (engineering)
Computer science
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Taiwan
Crash
Cloud computing
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Article
Procurement
Surveys and Questionnaires
0502 economics and business
Influencing factors
Information system
Humans
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
cloud model
business.industry
TOE
05 social sciences
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
green e-procurement
Cloud Computing
Materials Management, Hospital
Financial Management, Hospital
Multiple-criteria decision analysis
Resource allocation
hospitals
business
FAHP
050203 business & management
E-procurement
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16604601
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c7298f857a87248fab285fd32f2511f5