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

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...

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Main Authors: Abubakar Ibrahim, Adamu, Lawrence, Japhet Eke, Melmusi, Zerni, Haruna, Chiroma, Tarigan, Bahagia, Rohadi, Erfan, ., Mungad
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Published: SERSC Australia 2018
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spelling iium-723462019-07-12T01:19:50Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/72346/ Small and medium-sized enterprise: prioritization of Internet bandwidth needs for business purposes Abubakar Ibrahim, Adamu Lawrence, Japhet Eke Melmusi, Zerni Haruna, Chiroma Tarigan, Bahagia Rohadi, Erfan ., Mungad T Technology (General) 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. SERSC Australia 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/72346/1/72346_Small%20and%20medium-sized%20enterprise.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/72346/7/72346_International%20Journal%20of%20Advanced%20Science%20and%20Technology_scopus.pdf 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 http://article.nadiapub.com/IJAST/vol116/14.pdf 10.14257/ijast.2018.116.14
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Abubakar Ibrahim, Adamu
Lawrence, Japhet Eke
Melmusi, Zerni
Haruna, Chiroma
Tarigan, Bahagia
Rohadi, Erfan
., Mungad
Small and medium-sized enterprise: prioritization of Internet bandwidth needs for business purposes
description 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.
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author Abubakar Ibrahim, Adamu
Lawrence, Japhet Eke
Melmusi, Zerni
Haruna, Chiroma
Tarigan, Bahagia
Rohadi, Erfan
., Mungad
author_facet Abubakar Ibrahim, Adamu
Lawrence, Japhet Eke
Melmusi, Zerni
Haruna, Chiroma
Tarigan, Bahagia
Rohadi, Erfan
., Mungad
author_sort Abubakar Ibrahim, Adamu
title Small and medium-sized enterprise: prioritization of Internet bandwidth needs for business purposes
title_short Small and medium-sized enterprise: prioritization of Internet bandwidth needs for business purposes
title_full Small and medium-sized enterprise: prioritization of Internet bandwidth needs for business purposes
title_fullStr Small and medium-sized enterprise: prioritization of Internet bandwidth needs for business purposes
title_full_unstemmed Small and medium-sized enterprise: prioritization of Internet bandwidth needs for business purposes
title_sort small and medium-sized enterprise: prioritization of internet bandwidth needs for business purposes
publisher SERSC Australia
publishDate 2018
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/72346/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/72346/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/72346/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/72346/1/72346_Small%20and%20medium-sized%20enterprise.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/72346/7/72346_International%20Journal%20of%20Advanced%20Science%20and%20Technology_scopus.pdf
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