SIGCPR '85 Proceedings of the twenty-first annual conference on Computer personnel research
An empirical test of a stage of growth progression model
Management Science
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
An information system profile of U.S. companies
Information and Management
Information technology diffusion: a review of empirical research
ICIS '92 Proceedings of the thirteenth international conference on Information systems
Information and Management
Evolution and organizational information systems: an assessment of Nolan's stage model
Communications of the ACM
A critque of the stage hypothesis: theory and empirical evidence
Communications of the ACM
The stage hypothesis and the s-curve: some contradictory evidence
Communications of the ACM
Managing the computer resource: a stage hypothesis
Communications of the ACM
Internet diffusion in Chinese companies
Communications of the ACM - Transforming China
Why adoption and use behavior of IT/IS cannot last?--two studies in China
Information Systems Frontiers
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This paper presents an analysis of data collected from 94 Chinese firms about the development of their IT budgets and other variables in the period from 1989 to 2001. The purpose of this study is to revisit an early proposition by Nolan and colleagues regarding corporate IT purchasing behavior, called the Stages Hypothesis. We find that the Stages Hypothesis cannot be viewed as a general theory describing the IT purchasing behavior of firms; however, the development of the IT budget of some mostly large firms in our sample is consistent with the Stages Hypothesis. Based on further analyses, we offer a new interpretation of the Stages Hypothesis.