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Despite the substantial research in the domain of electronic procurement adoption, usage and performance (EP AUP), there is no structured review of these studies and most of the literature is in fragmented form. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate and synthesize EP AUP research in the past two decades and map key research approaches, prevailing theories and antecedents used by researchers to study EP AUP at the individual user and organizational level.

Design/methodology/approach

To evaluate and comprehend past and current patterns/themes in the EP AUP research area, a systematic literature review is undertaken. Significant peer-reviewed studies covering three categories – adoption, usage and performance and seven classification criteria are critically reviewed.

The findings reveal that most investigators mainly used “technology acceptance model,” “technology–organization–environment” framework and their extensions, demonstrating that “perceived ease of use,” “perceived usefulness,” “trust,” “organizational size,” “organizational readiness” and “behavioral intentions” are the most critical drivers of EP AUP.

Research limitations/implications

For researchers and practitioners, the review highlights a taxonomy of contextual factors to be considered for successful EP AUP. It further makes suggestions for future research meeting challenges of Industry-4.0.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first systematic literature review undertaken in the field of EP that studies it from three different perspectives. It further builds on the determinants of EP AUP and classifies them in four distinct categories: organizational, individual, information system level and environmental.

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Nandankar, S. and Sachan, A. (2020), "Electronic procurement adoption, usage and performance: a literature review", Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management , Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 515-535. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSTPM-02-2020-0031

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A procurement system is a crucial part of supply chain management in firms. International companies are looking forward to how much it is possible to save through implementing the strategies of e-procurement fully. In this paper, we study e-procurement and its application along with its added value for the firms. In addition, we discuss its drivers and barriers as well as demonstrating a supplier selection framework. We also adopt Critical Success Factors (CSF) for e-procurement. Findings indicate that e-procurement will decrease lead time, providing agility for the supply chain management. Added values are: strategic, operational and opportunity which varies depending on to what extent each organization emphasizes it and implements it. E-procurement systems implementation is hard due to its barriers by various technologies, varied organizational culture and changing users’ interacting skills with Information systems/technologies. E-procurement is a complex system in firms and firms’ staff are the main contributors of the technology. We need to write down the hierarchy tree and have a category titled “electronic transaction” that can help for quantitative decision making for the supplier selection in the e-procurement process. We found that all of the CSFs are not crucial in all of the firms and indicators for performance should be categorized into firms’ structures, managerial criteria, and key activities. These three indicators are strongly interrelated.

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