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It is observed from Table 6 that factors contributes significantly to Internet adoption (F=68.917, p-value=0.000) and predicts 78.6 percent of the variations in Internet adoption. Furthermore, the adjusted R square value is 0.774, indicating that 77.4 percent of the variation in the amount of small business owners is willing to adopt Internet. Further details show that the perceived value has significant influence on Internet adoption at 0.000 significant levels. Thus, hypothesis 4 is accepted.

Results

Conclusions and Recommendations

Conclusions

As conclusion, the results show that small businesses in Malaysia are dominated by self-employed follow by manager and CEO. Most small businesses in Malaysia is dominated by self-employed is due to family owned business culture in Malaysia especially for Chinese. Some others are operated by hire CEO and manager.

Services industry dominates the small businesses in Malaysia follow by manufacturing related services, manufacturing, and agro-based industries which most cover the areas in Melaka Tengah follow by Alor Gajah and Jasin. Melaka Tengah is a most populated areas in state of Melaka such as Melaka Raya is a business hub while Batu Berendam is light and heavy industries zone. Small businesses in Malaysia are dominated by less than five employees in their number of workforce and others are following by 5 to 10 employees, 11 to 15 employees and lastly is more than 15 employees. Finally, small businesses in Malaysia that own Internet operation is accounted for 28% while do not own Internet operation accounted for 72%.

In the reliability analysis, the results show that all variables are reliable which the value shown as follows: Internet Adoption (0.913), Relative Advantage (0.942), Compatibility (0.953), Trialability (0.978), Observability (0.941), and Complexity (0.892). The factors contribute to the Internet adoption for small businesses in Malaysia has significantly positive where complexity has strongly influence the relationship with Internet adoption while relative advantage and compatibility has no significantly influence the relationship with Internet adoption.

Finally, the hypothesis results show that relative advantage and compatibility are rejected while complexity, trialability, and observability are accepted.

Implication of the Research

The implication of this research could encourage the small businesses in Malaysia to adopt Internet operation to create competitive for their efficiency and effectiveness of the operation of their businesses. It also encourage entrepreneur to invest in technology innovativeness especially in information and communication technologies to raise the quality of the operations for making new products and services.

Government can encourage and promote entrepreneurship and ICT initiative so that citizen could compete in the global economy and capture competitive advantage by exploiting knowledge and innovation. It could serve as a platform 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。