What are the factors that influence the adoption of Cloud ERP among SMEs?
You can refer to the antecedents of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) or Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). Some of the antecedents include the following in which you can select those which are relevant in the context of Cloud ERP among SMEs:
Perceived Usefulness (of Cloud ERP among SMEs)
Perceived Ease of Use
Performance Expectancy
Effort Expectancy
Social Influences
Facilitating Conditions
To know more about these 2 model & theory that your research model can underpin on, you can refer to these 2 links. Wishing you all the best.
I did consider TAM model, but it does not satisfy the questions I am trying to answer because Cloud ERP's "perceived usefulness" and "intention to use" are already existing, but still the migration has not been that evident. Moreover, there are no good means to classify the factors as some factors may be or overlapping in nature or might have a high correlation.
The Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology has its components in "intention and behavior" direction, however my idea was not to go in psychology direction but keep it strictly on technology and organizational side and therefore I used the TOE framework.
However, this would be a nice way to cross verify the outcomes and may be future scope of research, but thank you for your reply. Do let me know your thoughts. Am sure you know about the TOE framework here is the link to it.
TOE is a good option, you may enrich its each components using variables in other İS theories being used in ICT adoption in organizations (such as, facilitating conditions from UTAUT, or system quality from IS success model etc.)
In addition to that, you may take a look at best practices in developing new model. It will provide you a projection from past ICT use experiences, and you may test their affect in cloud adoption. I did a similar msc thesis. Not adoption but investigating ICT use in organization by conducting a survey based on best practices. I attached a relevant publication of mine. It may give you a perspective
Bests
Chapter Assessment of Information Technology Use in Small and Medium...
Results of my work are now available. Thank you again to all who took time out to put their comments here. Please let me know your thoughts. Thank you.
Thesis Adoption of Cloud ERP - Empirical investigation of EU and Indian SMEs