EDI success in small and medium-sized enterprises: a field study
Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce
Communications of the ACM
Toward a unified view of electronic commerce
Communications of the ACM
Evaluating information systems in small and medium-sized enterprises: issues and evidence
European Journal of Information Systems
Opportunities of effective integration of EDI for small business in the automotive industry
Information and Management
An exploratory study of small business Internet commerce issues
Information and Management
Electronic commerce: a managerial perspective
Electronic commerce: a managerial perspective
Selling in the era of the “Net”: integration of electronic commerce in small firms
ICIS '97 Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on Information systems
Business environment and internet commerce benefit: a small business perspective
European Journal of Information Systems
Electronic Business Communications
Electronic Business Communications
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In this chapter we look into earlier empirical research on the barriers to e-commerce (EC) adoption and diffusion for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We explore research conducted in the context of information and communications technologies (ICT) in general, as well as EDI and Internet-based e-commerce. What we are interested in is whether these barriers are something new created by the new wave of Internet based technologies. We divide the barriers, inhibitors, or factors slowing down the diffusion of new technologies found in previous literature into those internal to an organization and those imposed by external forces. The basic premise of this chapter is that technologies advance or change, but the barriers for SMEs to adopt them do not. The authors hope that understanding this will help researchers, small companies, and policy makers to move on and do something active to reduce such barriers.