Factors Influencing e-commerce Adoption and Use by Small and Medium Businesses

Wymer, Scott A.; Regan, Elizabeth A.

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“…Some of the technical issues include accessibility; research finds that in Mexico, Internet access consumes 5% of disposable income. The two most important barriers to successful e-commerce tend to be cost and limited resources [5]. Further hindering decisions to invest, in B2B initiatives, is inability of disadvantaged firms to absorb financial losses [11].…”

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“…While there tends to be general agreement on the potential benefits of ICT4D, the results have been disappointing. Some researchers identify structural problems such as limited access, high cost and lack of human capital to successfully implement ICT4D [5]. Other research [2] examined institutional barriers that contributed to the high failure rates.…”

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Utilising the Internet to Improve Peasant Artisan Incomes: Evidence from Mexico

Dobson

Duncombe

Nicholson

2010

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. This paper examines whether the Internet can be used to improve peasant artisan incomes by connecting producers directly with global markets. The paper surveys previous research which suggests that Business to Business artisan portals within most Developing Economies have failed to deliver expected benefits. This paper identifies some of the significant obstacles to successful implementation and presents an institutional framework that provides for rational incentives. Drawing upon new institutional economics, we propose that the Internet can be the catalyst for positive change in artisan incomes. To illustrate the argument, we examine institutions within the Mexican handicraft market and highlight current challenges. The proposal presented involves readily available technology for both artisan and small retail stores to exploit their comparative advantage, leading to a sustainable model for artisan economic development.

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Utilising the Internet to Improve Peasant Artisan Incomes: Evidence from Mexico

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Duncombe

Nicholson

2010

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…Another looming threat is that large companies can now efficiently turn their attention to smaller market niches, once the domain of SMEs that could compete by developing personalized relations with their customers, customizing their offerings, and efficiently targeting niche markets (Kleindl, 2000). Few SMEs have advanced beyond establishing a simple Web site; most do not have a Web site that involves front and back office integration (Wymer, Regan, 2005). Because most of the research in the world has focused on large companies, and there is disagreement among the few research reports that have studied SMEs, it is believed the results of this research will aid those private, public, and academic institutions charged with helping Saudian SMEs.…”

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An Empirical Study of Internet Use in Saudian's Small and Mediums Enterprises

Adaileh¹

2012

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Employing the Internet as a tool can help address some of the critical issues affecting SMEs in Kingdom of Saudia Arabia, such as increased global competition, increased consumer demand for quality, increased partnerships between large/intermediate and small businesses, rapidly changing market environment, growing need for immediate access to current business information from a variety of sources, The purpose of this study was to assess the current level of Internet usage as a business tool by SMEs that formed the basis for an earlier study, The small companies have experienced a variety of difficulties in their adoption of the Internet as a business tool, and there have been a variety of benefits realized by small companies. Lastly, they have experienced problems such as cost increases since their adoption of the Internet as a business tool.

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“…It allows enterprises to scale down and give more focus to business areas and activities as information system and technology had been taken care of by the cloud vendors. This model of computing environment is very much suitable for universities, which do not have the enough resources in terms of money, time, and expertise (Wymer & Regan, 2005). Most of the national universities in Sri Lanka run cloud applications such as Google Apps for education and Microsoft 365, Cloud based University Management System etc.…”

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The Study on Awareness and Adoption of Cloud Computing by Academics in Sri Lankan Universities

Irshad¹,

Johar²

2017

IJARCSSE

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The main objective of this study is to understand the level of awareness and adoption of cloud computing by the academic staff in Sri Lankan universities. This study aimed at investigating the level of awareness of this emerging technology and the extent that they use cloud computing, and the reasons for adoption and non-adoption. The study found that two-third of the sample respondents are not aware of cloud computing. The level of adoption is limited to several applications, namely Google Apps Engine and Dropbox. Cost and time saving were stated as the reasons for adoption and the lack of benefits and security concerns were stated as the most important drivers for nonadoption. Although 78.4% of the respondents stated to be aware of cloud computing, but only 14% confirmed they are very knowledgeable about it. Considering the benefits that cloud computing could offer to organizations, this trend provokes for more involvement from the government and cloud computing service vendors to further promote this technology to the universities. I. INTRODUCTIONThe recent many cloud computing adoption studies by many organizations in different sectors stated that although users realized the opportunities available from the cloud technology, the adoption of the technology is still very low (Aboelmaged, 2010). Therefore, identifying the factors of cloud technology adoption, especially at the user level, has become paramount importance, hence received much attention from researchers (Ekufu, 2012). Thus, Williams (2010) argued that the most reported barriers for cloud adoption are the issues of security and trust. Other commonly reported factors, as highlighted in Shimba, (2010), include the dilemma in recognizing the benefits and the cost of shifting to cloud, the legal compliance issue, and the organizational impact as a result of the adoption.Although many advantages and opportunities could be realized from the adoption of cloud computing, the level of adoption by different people and organizations varies in scale. Further, there have been lesser number of researches in this area (Jäätmaa, 2010;Obeidat & Turgay, 2012;Sriram & Khajeh-hosseini, 2008). Most of the prior research had mainly focused on the adoption effect to the firm and also the technical issues inherent in cloud implementations (Obeidat & Turgay, 2013). Other notable cloud issues which were studied were cloud architecture (Saya, Pee, & Kankanhalli, 2010), cloud applications (Liu & Orban, 2008), cloud cost benefits (Dillon, Wu, & Chang, 2010) and cloud adoption process (Alshamaila, Papagiannidis, & Li, 2013). However, none of those studies were done in Sri Lanka. Hence, this study in the context of the adoption by the university academics is a paramount considering the significant contribution to the higher education and the economic development of this country.The objectives of this study falls in to two dimensions. At first, it investigates the level of awareness and adoption of cloud computing by the academic staff of Sri Lankan national universit...

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Factors Influencing e-commerce Adoption and Use by Small and Medium Businesses

Cited by 239 publications

References 23 publications

Utilising the Internet to Improve Peasant Artisan Incomes: Evidence from Mexico

Utilising the Internet to Improve Peasant Artisan Incomes: Evidence from Mexico

An Empirical Study of Internet Use in Saudian's Small and Mediums Enterprises

The Study on Awareness and Adoption of Cloud Computing by Academics in Sri Lankan Universities

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