GEOGRAFIA Online TM Malaysian Journal of Society and Space 12 issue 12 (40-49) © 2016, ISSN 2180-2491 40 The relationship between ICT adoption and business performance in Malaysia and Indonesia S. Y. Y. Ong 1 , N. F. Habidin 1 , M. I. Salleh 2 , N. M. Fuzi 2 1 Department of Management and Leadership, Faculty of Management and Economics,Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Tanjung Malim, Perak, Malaysia 2 Departments of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Management and Economics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Tanjung Malim, Perak, Malaysia Correspondence: S.Y.Y Ong (E-mail: sharonogyy@gmail.com) Abstracts This paper reviews the relationship of information communication technology adoption (ICT) and Business Performance (BP) from women entrepreneur perspective in Malaysia and Indonesia. The aim of this paper is to identify the dimension of ICT adoption and BP to develop a conceptual framework for further study about the relationship to identify those that can determine women entrepreneur success. To achieve this objective, literature review is conducted by extend number of literature in ICT, BP, and women entrepreneur. Related studies are review and analyze by using literature table. The finding of this paper reveals a proposed conceptual framework and hypothesis that gain support from literature. The significant of this study is expected to provide guideline for women entrepreneurs in Malaysia and Indonesia who wish to adopt ICT in their business and help them to evaluate the relationship with BP. This study can assist women entrepreneurs in considering the adoption of Electronic commerce (EC) and Mobile commerce (MC) to embark themselves in technology and innovation. Further efforts are to test this conceptual framework and hypothesis by using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to develop a research model. Key Words: ICT adoption, e-commerce, m-commerce, business performance, financial performance, non-financial performance. Introduction Women in Asia is often being lay on responsibility to take care of household, children, family and struggling to balance between work and domestic responsibility. Therefore, women entrepreneur in Asia are often not in prominent role of entrepreneurship (Karami, Moradi, Mazhari, Yarkarami, & Khan, 2013). Nugroho and Chowdhury (2015) also stated that women entrepreneur from Muslim countries such as Indonesia had difficulties in conducting business activities outside of their house due to home responsibility. This might effect on their Business Performance (BP). In this paper, researchers select Malaysia and Indonesia as both countries are Asia Muslim countries that have similar cultural and social background (Ball, 2010). Women entrepreneur in both countries are also facing similar dilemma such as balance between works and to perform in business (Karami et al., 2013; Nugroho & Chowdhury, 2015). This limitation of women entrepreneur (domestic responsibilities of women especially married or women entrepreneur that having family) cause women entrepreneur had difficulties in BP. Therefore, ICT adoption plays an important role of helping women entrepreneurs in reduce the limitation (Nugroho & Chowdhury, 2015). Further, the GEM report of Malaysia and Indonesia country profile (2013) had stated that entrepreneur in Malaysia and Indonesia need to