Adoption of electronic commerce amongst small and medium enterprises

This paper presents initial phase research results that indicate the adoption of e-commerce applications among Malaysian SMEs from the manufacturing sector.Thruough a review of related research on innovation adoption and diffusion, two dimensional model was developed to depict e-commerce adoption.T...

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Main Authors: Thi, Lip Sam, Ang, Chooi Leng
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2006
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/1366/1/Thi_Lip_Sam%2CDr_%26_Ang_Chooi_Leng%5B2%5D.pdf
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description This paper presents initial phase research results that indicate the adoption of e-commerce applications among Malaysian SMEs from the manufacturing sector.Thruough a review of related research on innovation adoption and diffusion, two dimensional model was developed to depict e-commerce adoption.The results indicate that simple e-commerce apprications would be adopted first before SMEs embarked on more complex e-commerce applications.In terms of extent of usage, it was found that a majority of Malaysian mamfacturing SMEs hove adopted ecommerce applications on a parallel basis while vety few SMEs have substituted e-commerce applications for traditional method- of conducting business.
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spelling uum-13662010-10-19T05:59:58Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/1366/ Adoption of electronic commerce amongst small and medium enterprises Thi, Lip Sam Ang, Chooi Leng HD28 Management. Industrial Management This paper presents initial phase research results that indicate the adoption of e-commerce applications among Malaysian SMEs from the manufacturing sector.Thruough a review of related research on innovation adoption and diffusion, two dimensional model was developed to depict e-commerce adoption.The results indicate that simple e-commerce apprications would be adopted first before SMEs embarked on more complex e-commerce applications.In terms of extent of usage, it was found that a majority of Malaysian mamfacturing SMEs hove adopted ecommerce applications on a parallel basis while vety few SMEs have substituted e-commerce applications for traditional method- of conducting business. Universiti Utara Malaysia 2006 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/1366/1/Thi_Lip_Sam%2CDr_%26_Ang_Chooi_Leng%5B2%5D.pdf Thi, Lip Sam and Ang, Chooi Leng (2006) Adoption of electronic commerce amongst small and medium enterprises. In: Proceedings of Knowledge Management International Conference & Exhibition (KMICE). Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, pp. 295-301. ISBN 9833282903 http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000242843
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title_short Adoption of electronic commerce amongst small and medium enterprises
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