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

• Main Authors: Abubakar Ibrahim, Adamu, Lawrence, Japhet Eke, Melmusi, Zerni, Haruna, Chiroma, Tarigan, Bahagia, Rohadi, Erfan, ., Mungad
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: SERSC Australia 2018
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: 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; http://irep.iium.edu.my/72346/; http://article.nadiapub.com/IJAST/vol116/14.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

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.