Electronic Business in Saudi Organization

This paper is to shed light on the use of electronic business and mobile applications in Saudi organizations to perform their various activities. The paper examined the validity of a previous model that was found from the literature, to identify the most significant factors that affect the intention to adopt mobile electronic business within Saudi organizations. The research suggests and tests seven hypotheses on a population consists of employees in public and private sectors. Therefore, a regular random sampling procedure was used in which 256 respondents were identified.Structural equation modeling had been performed to analyze the collected data, giving more superior empirical results that led to reject five of the seven hypotheses. Results indicate that mobile electronic business features and opportunities as well as social influence both positively affect the intention to adopt mobile electronic business in Saudi organizations. Keywords: Information Systems, Organizations, Information Technology Adoption, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Phones, Mobile Electronic Commerce, Information Systems in Organizations, Information Technology, Mobile Commerce Adoption, Electronic Business, SEM

Evaluation of the Electronic Services System for Taibah University in Light of the Dimensions of Information Systems

The study aims to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the electronic services system at Taibah University by highlighting the achievements of aspects of the information systems from faculty members’ perspectives. First, we defined the three dimensions of information systems using a descriptive approach; then, with the help of four experts, we designed a questionnaire and distributed it to 150 faculty members from different Taibah University departments. We applied statistical analyses, including exploratory factor analysis and frequency analysis, we also applied confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The study concludes with a proposed scenario for improving the performance of the electronic services system at Taibah University. Keywords: electronic services system (ES), information systems dimensions, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).