Factors Affecting e-Commerce Adoption in SMEs in the GCC: An Empirical study of Kuwait

Al‐Alawi, Adel Ismail; Al-Ali, Faisal M.

doi:10.3923/rjit.2015.1.21

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“…Some researchers have found that e‐commerce adoption is affected by the model of the organization; its technological, environmental, and other aspects of its business environment; and its use of information and communications technology and Web applications (Al‐Alawi & Al‐Ali, ). Others have noted the importance of such factors as customer‐based open systems and electronic data interchanges (Kumar & Raheja, ), as well as the impact of managerial characteristics (Shemi, ).…”

Section: Factors Affecting E‐commercementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To date, the government has not played a significant role in promoting e‐commerce absorption among businesses. The current drivers of e‐commerce in Tanzania are private practitioners, but even they, given the absence of motivational factors, are slow to make the changes needed to fully take advantage of new technologies (Al‐Alawi & Al‐Ali, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessing the challenges to e‐commerce adoption in Tanzania

Nantembelele¹,

Gopal²

2018

Glob Bus Org Exc

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A study of 100 managers at Information Technology and e-commerce companies in three districts of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, identifies the principal factors impeding the spread of e-commerce in that area. These include budget constraints, poor Internet penetration, a low level of computer literacy, and a lack of skills and training. By addressing these issues, along with users' security and privacy concerns, organizational leaders can help foster the adoption of e-commerce technologies that can lead to increased efficiency, profits, and market reach.

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Section: Factors Affecting E‐commercementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Assessing the challenges to e‐commerce adoption in Tanzania

Nantembelele¹,

Gopal²

2018

Glob Bus Org Exc

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“…This shows that management support is crucial for the adoption of technologies in SMEs. Top management support is positively related to the adoption of technologies in organizations (Al-Alawi & Al- Ali, 2015;Lu et al, 2015;Ibrahim, Hassan & Gusau, 2018). This leads to the following hypothesis: H6: Perceived top management support is positively associated with the adoption of m-commerce.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…It is critical for technology adoption in SMEs as the decision-making process is mostly centralized in a few managers (Alfahl et al, 2017). Such persons can provide a vision, support and commitment to creating a positive environment for technology adoption (Al-Alawi & Al- Ali, 2015). This shows that management support is crucial for the adoption of technologies in SMEs.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Perception-Based Model for Mobile Commerce Adoption in Vietnamese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Chau

Deng

Tay

2021

Journal of Global Information Management

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This paper investigates the critical determinants for the adoption of mobile commerce (m-commerce) in Vietnamese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the perspective of managers. A perception-based conceptual model is developed with respect to the technology-organization-environment framework. The conceptual model is then tested and validated using structural equation modelling on the data collected from 513 SMEs in Vietnam. The study shows that perceived benefits, perceived compatibility, perceived security, perceived organizational readiness, and perceived customer pressures are critical for the adoption of m-commerce. As the first study on the critical determinants for m-commerce adoption in Vietnam, these findings are useful for SME managers as well as policymakers in designing policies as strategies to promote the wide development and diffusion of m-commerce in SMEs in Vietnam and other developing countries.

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“…The existence of support from management means obtaining adequate allocation of technological and financial resources to adopt information technology innovations [23]. Some studies reveal that management support is positively correlated to the widespread use of the internet and ecommerce adoption by SMEs [37,38]. In addition to top management support, indicators of employee IT knowledge are very important for ability of organizations to adopt or not adopt ICT and e-commerce among SMEs [39].…”

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E-Commerce Adoption in SMEs: A Literature Review

Religia¹,

Surachman²,

Rohman³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Economics Engineering and Social Science, InCEESS 2020, 17-18 July, Bekasi,

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Development of information technology (IT) has been driven changes in various fields, one of which is in marketing. The use of IT in marketing will not be separated from internet, where e-commerce services have now emerged that allow businesses to conduct face-to-face transactions by removing barriers related to distance in interacting with customers, so that every stakeholder will have same opportunity for promoting their products. On the other, Indonesia is country fourth largest population in the world, where 99.8 percent of its business units are small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Although the number of business units in the SMEs sector is very large, ecommerce adoption is still dominated by large business units, so research related to the adoption of e-commerce by SMEs is still very limited, especially in developing countries. This study aims to fill that research gap. In this study a TOE framework will be examined to determine the determinants of e-commerce adoption by SMEs. TOE framework considers technology, organization and environment variables to measure adoption of information technology. Analysis of TOE framework will consider empirical literature. This study also makes recommendations for future research.

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Factors Affecting e-Commerce Adoption in SMEs in the GCC: An Empirical study of Kuwait

Cited by 56 publications

References 11 publications

Assessing the challenges to e‐commerce adoption in Tanzania

Assessing the challenges to e‐commerce adoption in Tanzania

A Perception-Based Model for Mobile Commerce Adoption in Vietnamese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

E-Commerce Adoption in SMEs: A Literature Review

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