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Table 2. Detailed type of information systems used in Jordanian factories

# Item (question asked) Number of factories

1 Do you use any type of Information Technology 66

2 Do you use accounting information systems 60

3 Do you use special sales systems 42

4 Do you use production information systems 45

5 Do you use inventory and warehousing systems 47

6 Do you use computer-aided design systems 23

7 Do you use human resource and salary systems 52

8 Do you use quality assurance/control systems 36

9 Do you use Distribution systems 25

10 Do you use procurement information systems 37

11 Do you use manufacturing aiding systems 25

but integrated together. Also, results indicated that
20 factories employed enterprise systems that are
utilized in many functions and tasks. Finally, only
8 factories have extended systems that reach sup-
pliers, distributors and customers (SCMS or ERP).
The second part of the survey included items
related to the systems used in these factories. 47
managers indicated that they are interested in
extending and using part or all of the systems
listed in Table 2. Also, the distribution of the
source and type of these systems were as follows:
32 factories used locally designed systems, and
33 factories used ready-made exported systems
(off-shelf systems).
One of the objectives of this study was to see
the relationships between variables like computer
diffusion, sales and employee size. This was done
through the correlations between those variables to

test if any relationship exists between those. Also,
to relate demographics with the main objective of
this work, we estimated a new construct based on
the count of the number of systems employed by
the firm (example: manager of firm XYZ checked
yes for using three systems (accounting informa-
tion systems, HR systems and sales systems), so
the total number of systems employed were three).
This number (or set of data) was correlated against
each of the variables mentioned. The correlations
matrix is depicted in Table 3.
The results indicated significant correlations
between the three variables and the total number of
systems deployed. Also, it is shown that significant
correlations existed between all three variables.

Table 3. Correlations matrix of the demographics against the number of systems employed

Number
of employees

Sales size Number

of computers

Number of employees 1

Sales size 0.551** 1

Number of computers 0.636** 0.810** 1

Total number of systems 0.437** 0.394** 0.398**

** Correlation is significant at the 0.001 level