The scenario of the adoption of e-commerce amongst Malaysian small and medium enterprises in manufacturing sector

The emergence of E-commerce in the midst of bricks and mortar era has transformed the way peoples conducting business transaction.Consequently, the bricks and click approach become dominant.The success stories of a few first movers such as Amazon.com and Dell.com, has motivated a few more especially...

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Main Authors: Mohamad Noor, Rafidah, Hussin, Husnayati
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2005
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/14639/1/15.pdf
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Summary:The emergence of E-commerce in the midst of bricks and mortar era has transformed the way peoples conducting business transaction.Consequently, the bricks and click approach become dominant.The success stories of a few first movers such as Amazon.com and Dell.com, has motivated a few more especially big companies to join in the battle. However, Small and Medium Enterprises has just started to realize the important of E-commerce in current and future business paradigm. This paper reports a scenario on the adoption of E-commerce among Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises in manufacturing sector.The analysis is conducted based on 106 responses collected through mailed-questionnaire to randomly selected manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia