WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Print ISSN: 1790-0832, E-ISSN: 2224-3402
Volume 9, 2012
Investigations on Barriers to the Incorporation of Information and Communications Technologies in Small Scale Industries
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Abstract: In this research paper the investigations are made on the incorporation barriers of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in the small scale industries in Chennai, Tamil Nadu state of India. Here the researcher creates a suitable ecosystem with explanations about the successful qualities to be possessed, risk to be faced, constraints to be studied and challenging time to be crossed in achieving the aim of success in small scale industries. To evaluate the barriers of implementation of ICT in small scale industries and motivate the new entrepreneurs to launch the new industry in this sector, a well built supportive ecosystem with dimensions of the skilled and efficient human resources, modern information and communications equipment and technologies, the regulatory systems, healthy legal environments and the improved infrastructure of international standard are very much important to fulfil their entrepreneurial thrust. This research paper deals with the investigations of barrier parameters of the implementation of the ICT in small scale industries. Small scale industries play very important roles in the Indian national economies, due to their numbers and the large share of the workforce involved. However, despite the recognition of important roles of small scale industries in the economy, some crucial ICT implementation barriers prevent them from developing and contributing sufficiently. This research paper identifies and determines the important implementation barriers of ICT in the small enterprises in Chennai, India.