Determinants of Social Media Marketing Adoption among Small and Medium Enterprises in Dar es Salaam - Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorAugustine, Justine.
dc.contributor.authorNewa, Makawa.
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-13T09:08:07Z
dc.date.available2023-09-13T09:08:07Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-31
dc.description.abstractThe general objective of the study was to examine the determinants of social media marketing adoption among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Ilala Municipality, Dar es Salaam. The study provides the effects of technological, organizational and environmental factors on adoption of social media marketing in the SMEs sector. This study used descriptive research design; thus primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire, whereas multiple regression analysis was used to analyse the collected data from 122 SMEs owners who were selected through simple random sampling. The SPSS software was used for data analysis. The results from multiple regression analysis showed that technological factors had positive and significant relationship with the adoption of social media marketing in SMEs (p = 0.001). Moreover, the findings showed that organisational factors and adoption of social media marketing were positively related (p = 0.000). Furthermore, the findings indicated that there was positive and significant relationship between environmental factors and adoption of social media marketing in SMEs (p = 0.002). The study concludes that technological, organizational and environmental factors determine social media marketing adoption for SMEs. However, organizational factors are the major determinants of social media marketing adoption in SMEs. The study recommends that the management of SMEs should improve organizational environment such as employee skills by providing training in order to increase the use of social media marketing in SMEs. Government should provide support and comprehensive policy to foster growth of SMEs in Tanzania through adoption of social media marketing, and the SMEs management should accommodate technology innovation to support easy adoption of Social media marketing.en_US
dc.identifier.issn25916815
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tia.ac.tz/handle/123456789/177
dc.publisherTIAen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 4;2
dc.subjectSocial Media Marketing, Technological, Organizational and Environmental Factors.en_US
dc.titleDeterminants of Social Media Marketing Adoption among Small and Medium Enterprises in Dar es Salaam - Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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