Small and medium-sized enterprise: prioritization of Internet bandwidth needs for business purposes

Abubakar Ibrahim, Adamu and Lawrence, Japhet Eke and Melmusi, Zerni and Haruna, Chiroma and Tarigan, Bahagia and Rohadi, Erfan and ., Mungad (2018) Small and medium-sized enterprise: prioritization of Internet bandwidth needs for business purposes. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 116. pp. 151-166. ISSN 2005-4238

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Abstract

The use of internet bandwidth has become very important to the increasing number of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME). Regrettably, many employees are prone to abuse their unlimited internet access at work for non-work related purposes. Policies and monitoring of employee internet bandwidth use increase a firm’s productivity. Unfortunately, trust issues between a company and its employees significantly affect the latter’s organizational commitment and turnover intentions. This research proposes a model which allows employees to use their organization’s internet bandwidth at work for work as well as non-work purposes while at the same time effectively utilizing the internet bandwidth for work purposes. This paper presents a firm’s effective bandwidth utilization conceptual model which has been developed and tested statistically, and it also compares the resulting findings with the leading empirical studies in this domain.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	7132/72346
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Internet bandwidth use; Utilization Policies; Monitoring
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science
Depositing User:	Dr Adamu Abubakar
Date Deposited:	27 May 2019 15:36
Last Modified:	12 Jul 2019 09:19
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/72346

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