Barriers and Factors Affecting the E-Commerce Sustainability of Thai Micro-, Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs)

Factors Affecting E-commerce Adoption and Implementation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

E-commerce has become increasingly popular in our everyday business and personal lives. For many organizations, competitiveness in e-commerce requires a successful presence on the web. This paper provided an insight about factors affecting business-to-business e-commerce adoption and implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises. The research is based on a wide literature review, focused...

Factors Affecting E-commerce Adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises: An Interpretive Study of Botswana

E-commerce and related factors on the performance of small and medium scale industries

This study aims to analyze: 1) the development of demand for craft SMIs products through the use of e-commerce, 2) the effect of e-commerce utilization, macroeconomic conditions, prices, and the intensity of promotion on product demand, 3) the effect of e-commerce utilization, macroeconomic conditions, prices, promotion intensity, and product demand for performance; and 4) the role of product d...

Can e-commerce facilitate the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in Africa?

Recent socioeconomic progress in Africa has occurred in the context of ubiquitous information and communications technologies (ICTs). The mobile subscription penetration reached 63 per cent in 2013 and more than 16 per cent of the population is now using the Internet.1 Policymakers and African development partners foresee a lot of possibilities in the opportunities made available by ICTs in the...

Barriers to the Take-up of Electronic Commerce among Small-Medium Sized Enterprises

Since small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role within many major economies throughout the world, their ability to successfully adopt and utilize the Internet and electronic commerce is of prime importance in ensuring their stability and future survival. In this paper, initial findings will be reported of a study carried out by the authors into the use made of the Internet and ele...