Information Technology (IT) in Agribusiness Enterprises

Abstract

The objective of this research study is to identify the existence and role of information technology (IT) at Albanian agribusiness enterprises. IT contains many elements like: software, hardware, different systems, mobile application etc. According to this research study, these elements have been applied also at Albanian agribusiness enterprises. Different employees use different elements of IT. It is observed that employees who belong to financial department use financial software, the employees at marketing department use more www (world wide web) while the managers were more interested in decision-making software. Some of the enterprises that were involved on this research studies, had created also IT department. It is obvious that those enterprises contain a major role on business. There has been a statistical analyze by SPSS program of all data that were collected by the surveys on interviews. According to the results, there was a connection between production forecast, number of computers and IT department existence. Production forecast is on percentage which means that if the enterprise wants to produce more next year comparing to the actual year, then it needs more computers and perhaps to create an IT department. The probability is calculated according to statistical regression models. This research study is very important as it contributes to involve IT on agribusiness enterprises.

Keywords: Enterprise, information technology (IT), department