To What Extent Would E-mall Enable SMEs to Adopt E-Commerce?

Bahaddad, Adel A.; AlGhamdi, Rayed; Houghton, Luke

doi:10.5539/ijbm.v7n22p123

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“…These results are in agreement with the works of Senarathna and Wickramasuriya (2001), Tsao et al (2004), Kartiwi (2006), Wilson et al (2008), Chiliya et al (2011), El-Sofany et al (2012, Bahaddad et al (2012), Ajmal and Yasin (2012), Shemi and Procter (2013), Mutua et al (2013), Rumanyika and Mashenene (2014), Fahruzzaman and Subriadi (2015), Al-Alawi and Al-Ali (2015) and Chivasa and Hurasha (2016).…”

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“…In fact, the absence of these factors was regarded by many authors of previous studies as an inhibitor of e-commerce practice (Shemi and Procter, 2013). Examples of e-commerce barriers found in studies conducted in SMEs include lack of financial resources, security factors, knowledge factors, personal and business social influence, and perceived usefulness of using e-commerce, in addition to a lack of IT skills, customers' preferences for actual shopping rather than online shopping, a lack of top management support, resistance to change, and the high cost of applications (El-Sofany et al, 2012;Bahaddad et al, 2012;Almaimouni et al, 2014;Zafar et al, 2015 andEzzi, 2015). However, in this study two of the environmental factors (Government regulations and e-commerce standards) show no effect on the practice of ecommerce.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The results show that the most important barriers to the adoption of e-commerce include high costs, employees' resistance to change, the absence of technical officers, a lack of ecommerce standards and a legal framework, low levels of internet security, continuous modifications in government policies and regulations, a lack of awareness of e-commerce benefits, and restricted use of e-payment services. Bahaddad et al (2012) explored the practice of e-commerce among Saudi plants using the following factors: organizational and human factors, technological and environmental factors, and traditional and cultural factors, collecting data from a sample of 110 SMEs in Saudi Arabia. Their results revealed that experience and skills in IT, IT education, website characteristics, communications, and security of payment methods were the most critical factors affecting the practice of e-commerce.…”

Section: Factors Enhancing and Inhibiting The Practice Of E-commercementioning

confidence: 99%

“…organizational, technological and environmental factors (Bahaddad et al, 2012;Ajmal and Yasin, 2012;Shemi and Procter, 2013). The primary aim of this study is to study the practice of e-commerce in SMEs in Saudi Arabia, and the obstacles met by these enterprises.…”

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The practice of e-commerce and its obstacles: A field study on SMEs in the Al-Qassim region

Nakhleh

2017

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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The aim of this study was to explore the practice of e-commerce among SMEs in Al-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia and the obstacles to e-commerce faced by managers. In order to collect the required data, a questionnaire was developed on the basis of an extensive review of the literature, and this was distributed to a sample of 100 SMEs in the Al-Qassim region. Of the distributed questionnaires, 74 completed questionnaires were returned, giving a response rate of 74%. The questionnaire comprised four main domains: the practice of e-commerce as a dependent variable while organizational, technological and environmental factors as independent variables. Each of the independent domains covered six dimensions. The results of the study supported the hypotheses that organizational factors (top management support, employee skills and experience, and business strategy alignment), technological factors (internet service quality, information technology security, perceived benefits, e-payment services, and number of technical officers), and environmental factors (customer preferences, industry characteristics, socio-cultural factors, and competitor pressure) have significant and positive relationships with the practice of ecommerce in SMEs. The absence of these factors can therefore be regarded as a barrier to the practice of e-commerce.

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Section: Factors Enhancing and Inhibiting The Practice Of E-commercementioning

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The practice of e-commerce and its obstacles: A field study on SMEs in the Al-Qassim region

Nakhleh

2017

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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“…In a similar approach to Lip-Sam and Hock-Eam (2011), Bahaddad et al (2012) tested 17 factors under three categorizations, namely, people and organization, technological and environmental and traditions and culture. The study reveals that only 9 factors are significant.…”

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Organization Information Ecology and E-Commerce Adoption: Effect on Organizational SMEs Performance

Herzallah¹,

Mukhtar

2015

Journal of Computer Science

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Electronic Commerce (EC) has recently become the subject of interest of many researchers involved in behavioral and technology acceptance. EC was heavily studied in developed countries, but there are only a few narrowly focused studies on EC adoption in developing countries, especially in the context of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Previous researchers have investigated many factors that influence the adoption of EC applications, such as organizational and technological factors. However, a review of the literature showed that Organization Information Ecology (OIE), which is an important factor in the context of EC, has not been receiving the attention it deserves in the context of EC adoption. Based on the literature review of previous studies, a model is proposed to reviews and attempts to identify the organizational, technological and OIE factors that effect on the adoption of EC and the impact of EC on organization performance. Altogether, twelve hypotheses are proposed. The proposed conceptual model provides a foundation for test the relationships in our suggested model by using the empirical data or other techniques.

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