This research examines potential barriers within the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework that affect the decision to adopt Electronic Commerce (EC) and extent of EC adoption within Small Businesses (SBs) in the context of developing countries. This research also signifies the discriminators of adoption and non-adoption of different EC applications. Through a questionnaire-based ...

in recent years, the C2C e-commerce websites have developed rapidly with intensive competition. For C2C E-commerce websites, the prerequisite for promoting enterprise’s competitiveness level and achieving competitive advantages is to assess and acquaint their competitiveness, which is also a significant problem to be solved at present. Based on the analysis of E-commerce website evaluation, the...

introduction: awareness of outlook, objectives, benefits and impact of telemedicine technology that can promote services quality, reduce costs, increase access to specialized and subspecialty services. therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the telemedicine strategic planning from the managers and expert’s perspective in the hea...

knowledge management is a process of using a source of strategic knowledge in organizations in order to find key information and organize and transfer it. many organizations adopted knowledge management systems to maintain their stability and usefulness. since there is occupational similarity between informatics experts and librarians, librarians can change to knowledge managers by being inform...

INTRODUCTION Rapid developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as electronic commerce (e-commerce), have revolutionized the way that business is conducted. E-commerce refers to the process of buying and selling goods and services electronically involving transactions using Internet, network, and other digital technology. It offers companies tremendous opportunities t...

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has become an increasingly important initiative among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as both a great opportunity and as a source of competition. The factors affecting adoption decisions of e-commerce by SMEs have been well documented, but there is a paucity of empirical studies that examine the adoption of e-commerce in the Arab world. The aim of this chapt...

The concept of the Internet as a cluster of related innovations, along with the staged approach to organisational learning exhibited by SMEs in other domains, suggest that ecommerce is likely to be adopted in a sequence of stages. This exploratory survey, carried out by means of a postal questionnaire with 678 respondents, uses cluster analysis to derive a grouped classification of e-commerce a...

Managers and researchers would benefit from both an understanding of the organizational practices that result in more featured e-commerce sites and an understanding of the particular features that contribute to firm performance. A Web-based survey of 458 managers of business-to-consumer e-commerce revealed that two organizational practices CEO commitment and planning generally resulted in more ...