Determinants of Electronic Commerce in Pakistan: Preliminary Evidence from Small and Medium Enterprises

Seyal, Afzaal H.; Awais, Muhammad; Shamail, Shafay; Abbas, Andleeb

doi:10.1080/10196780412331311801

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“…-552-Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management -http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jiem.1917 Poon and Swatman (1998) and Seyal, Awais, Shamail and Abbas (2004) support this same premise, and argue that the failure to adopt tools related to this sphere is down to several reasons, such as a scarcity of funds, a dearth of enterprising spirit and management initiative, and a lack of management backing. Accordingly, support from top management is required throughout the entire process, with the project also being aligned with the firm's strategic business goals.…”

Section: Perception and Support Of Top Managementmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…This relationship becomes closer when there are fewer reporting levels between the systems' director and top management (Teo, 2007). In turn, Seyal et al (2004) contend that those firms more willing to adopt ICTs will be those in which top management has a favourable attitude and understands their development and application. Soliman and Janz (2004) report a positive relationship between the support provided by top management and the adoption of e-business, considering it, together with trust in the network, to be one of the more significant factors.…”

Section: Perception and Support Of Top Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An explanatory model of the organizational factors that explain the adoption of E-business

García-Moreno

Moreno

Sánchez

et al. 2016

JIEM

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Abstract:Purpose: To describe the factors that facilitate the adoption of e-business in firms. To go in deep on the factors, resources and capabilities that need to be present in those firms seeking to improve their levels of e-business adoption.Design/methodology/approach: Analysis of the literature involving the main theories on business administration, and more specifically, on those related to technology innovation (TI) and information systems (IS), as applicable to the organizational factors that explain the adoption of e-business.Findings: It identifies three main sources of influence: a first group covers the characteristics of the actual firm, which refer to the organisation's specific features: firm size, the backing of top management, expected benefit, age, the level of human capital, and international projection. A second group of factors includes technology-related characteristics. The third group contains all those aspects in the environment that may affect the firm's attitude to e-business. Research limitations/implications:The chosen variables play significant role following a review of the studies on the subject, but not all potential ones have been included. The variables have been chosen in view of the large number of studies that have reported conclusive results.-547-Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management -http://dx

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Section: Perception and Support Of Top Managementmentioning

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Section: Perception and Support Of Top Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

An explanatory model of the organizational factors that explain the adoption of E-business

García-Moreno

Moreno

Sánchez

et al. 2016

JIEM

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“…E-Commerce adoption by SMMEs was found to be influenced by compatibility issues in other studies such as Hong and Zhu (2006), Saffu, Walker and Hinson, (2008). Similarly, Seyal, Awais, Shamail and Abbas (2004) found that organisational culture is a significant factor that influences the adoption of e-commerce in Pakistan SMMEs. Beatty, Shim and Jones (2001) also found that organisations that perceive website use as compatible with the existing organisational culture, adopted e-commerce earlier than those perceiving some level of incompatibility between the two.…”

Section: Association Between Compatibility and E-commerce Adoptionmentioning

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Determinants of E-Commerce Adoption amongst SMMEs in Durban, South Africa

Ndayizigamiye

McArthur

2014

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“…This research was an opening effort to discover the association between CEO perception of individual readiness factors such as "anchor" and "adjustment" in EC adoption in family SMEs' domain. To create the run-through model, supplementary analysis and examination will be accompanied using Thong (1999), Thong and Yap (1995), Scupola (2003), Lee (2004), Seyal et al, (2004) The extent to which a CEO believes that the application of a special system make her/him able to do the task better (Davis, 1989 CEO's perception of availability of human, financial, and technological resources of a firm (adopted from Tan et al, 2007) Perceived Organizational Governance CEO's perception of the strategies, tactical, and operational models designing the organization's structure to establish objectives, allocate resources, and make decisions (adopted from Tan …”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is referred to the CEO's perception of organizational structure; concerning gathering information and communicational ways, decision making, resource allocating, and decision implementation process (Seyal et al, 2004). The organizational governance in developing countries had been realized as an important EC deployment factor (Molla & Licker, 2005).…”

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Conceptualizing Model of Factors Influencing Electronic Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family SMEs

Jamali¹,

Marthandan²,

Khazaei³

et al. 2015

ASS

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Purpose -This paper aims to provide a conceptual model for the purpose of examining potential influencing factors as well as particular effect of family SMEs' heterogeneity factors on EC adoption in Iranian family SMEs.Design/methodology/approach -The conceptual model originates from EC adoption study backgrounds, grounded in the major concepts of frequently EC adoption and their dependent-extended models. Literature review presents relevant items under their main first order factors, including family SMEs' heterogeneity factors, categorized by contexts.Findings -The model, in which EC adoption refers to the significance of 'Extent of Deployment' as innovation behavior, respecting to the theoretical basis of human behavior including essential pure theories (i.e. Learning; Anchoring-and-Adjustment) and major concepts of frequently EC adoption models (TAM; TPB; SCT; DOI), besides role of family SMEs' heterogeneity factors (i.e. The moderating effects of 'Family Strategic Orientation') provided a basis for assessing potential EC adoption antecedents (under which different facets of EC adoption would be considered) including 13 th first orders, categorized under four main individual, organizational, industrial, and national contexts.Practical implications -As a sustainable business market mean, EC adoption as an extra-exploitation of electronic commerce, making wider and more diversified external 'business-linked' and/or 'customer-linked' business relationships, particularly for family SMEs that suffer from 'marketing deficiency', time and effort is necessary so as to identify influencing factors and diagnose their effects on EC deployment in such Iranian SMEs, where EC adoption is questionably near to ground. The presented model is quite valuable for the analysis.Originality/value -This paper presents a conceptual model for analyzing EC adaption factors under related contexts. Independent influences of 12 first potential factors categorized in four contexts as well as the moderation effect of 'family strategic orientation' variable on EC adoption are studied in the model. The design differs from previous studies as they used dichotomous approaches for 'family strategic Orientation' determination.

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Determinants of Electronic Commerce in Pakistan: Preliminary Evidence from Small and Medium Enterprises

Cited by 65 publications

References 38 publications

An explanatory model of the organizational factors that explain the adoption of E-business

An explanatory model of the organizational factors that explain the adoption of E-business

Determinants of E-Commerce Adoption amongst SMMEs in Durban, South Africa

Conceptualizing Model of Factors Influencing Electronic Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family SMEs

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