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Examining the Employees Behavior Control in Cloud Computing Performance Through the Moderating Lenses of Transformational Leadership

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E-Business. Digital Empowerment for an Intelligent Future (WHICEB 2023)

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Cloud computing (CC) is becoming a new paradigm for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) to access information systems. However, there is a dearth of empirical investigation on how SME employees utilize CC. Hence, the purpose of this study is to ascertain how employees’ behavioral control and transformational leadership (TL) among SME influence successful CC performance. The 206 responses that were gathered, used in structural equation modeling (SEM) utilizing SmartPLS 4.0 to confirm the formulated hypotheses. The findings indicated that employees’ behavior control (EBC) and the CC performance were positively influenced by information sharing (IS), technical ability (TA), and change readiness (CR). Additionally, the moderating effect of TL was found to strengthen the relationship among factors and plays an important role in controlling the employee behavior for successful CC performance.

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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Project No. 72072167 and 72071193].

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  1. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China

    Nisar Ahmad, Zhiying Liu & Xu Yi

  2. Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, China

    Jiang Wu & Muhammad Waqas

  3. University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Fahad Alam

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Ahmad, N., Liu, Z., Wu, J., Alam, F., Waqas, M., Yi, X. (2023). Examining the Employees Behavior Control in Cloud Computing Performance Through the Moderating Lenses of Transformational Leadership. In: Tu, Y., Chi, M. (eds) E-Business. Digital Empowerment for an Intelligent Future. WHICEB 2023. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 481. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32302-7_25

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