Electronic commerce adoption by small- and medium-sized enterprises in Australia: an empirical study of influencing factors

This study surveys the perceptions and experiences of Australian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the adoption of Internet-based Electronic Commerce (EC). This paper proposes a framework of EC adoption for SMEs. With a sample of 115 small businesses in Australia, preliminary results show that respondents' perception of Internet-based EC are pre-dominantly positive. However, a further analysis was carried out regressing state of adoption on the 19 influencing factors of EC. It was found that only 8 factors

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ECIS
• Authors: Sandy Chong
• Keywords: Adoption, EC Adoption, ECIS 2004, Information Technology, Internet-based EC