AI Adoption Pathways for Hong Kong SMEs: A Readi-ness-Based Model for Achieving Expected Outcomes in Business Development
Grounded in the Resource-Based View, this paper proposes that talent readiness, financial access and change management shape expected business outcomes from AI. It outlines Pearson and partial-correlation tests for a target sample of 150 Hong Kong SMEs and defines transformational, incremental, futile and stagnant pathways. The report is a theoretical model and analysis plan, not completed empirical validation, so its relationships should be treated as hypotheses.
Thai researchersJacky Mong Kwan Watt