The influence of government intervention on logistics enterprise's adoption of information technology

With emphasizing the process of innovation, this paper classifies government intervention focused on innovation adoption into three dimensionalities: information support, financial support and personnel support. It also refines technological cognition into two aspects: perceived benefits including functional benefits and social benefits, and perceived costs including financial cost and risk. This paper develops an information technology adoption model of logistic enterprise for the context of government intervention, which based on the technology adoption theories of behavior perspective and follows the corresponding basic principle that government intervention affects adoption intention indirectly via technological cognition. Then, the study takes standard TMS and investigates some logistic enterprises in Zhejiang province to conduct empirical research. With collected 113 valid data, the author tests the model by regression analysis. The results demonstrate that adoption intention is affected by government intervention through technological cognition, and reveals the path in which different kinds of government intervention affect technological cognition.