Toward a Holistic Model for Adopting Cloud Computing in Organizations: A Systematic Review

Abstract

Regarding the innovation that occurred in the information technology industry over the years, the dependence on cloud computing has increased. In this regard, cloud computing has drastically developed in recent years. Many organizations usually rely on this technology for their business and use it as the backbone of their company’s IT infrastructure. Despite the extensive advantages of the could computing, many of these services are limitedly adopted by the companies and many companies are dubious to adopt this technology. The present study aimed to systematically review the factors effective in organizational decision-making for adoption of the cloud computing by the use of the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework. The TOE framework classifies the factors affecting an organization’s adoption of innovation into three groups: 1. Technology (meaning the system’s security and complexity), 2. Organization (meaning the organization size and chief managers’ support of functional systems displacement), and 3. Environment (cases such as market uncertainty and pressure from the government or competition).