Sparling, Lynn and Cater-Steel, Aileen and Toleman, Mark (2010) Adoption of e-commerce by Canadian SMEs: defining organizational, environmental and innovation characteristics. In: Encyclopedia of e-business development and management in the global economy. Business Science Reference (IGI Global), Hershey, PA, United States, pp. 305-315. ISBN 978-1-61520-611-7
Abstract
[Introduction]
While online sales have experienced high growth
rates, e-commerce adoption rates by Canadian SMEs
have not kept pace. Canadian SMEs continue to lag
behind the US and the EU in adopting e-commerce.
Recently, a survey of SMEs’ adoption of e-commerce
was conducted to determine reasons for this low
adoption rate. Constructs used in the survey
focussed on three contexts: organizational, external
environmental and innovation. The study found
significant factors that differentiated adopters and
non-adopters of e-commerce included technological
opportunism and readiness, owner experience
with computers, support within the organization,
relative advantage and compatibility. This chapter
focuses on the definitions of the variables in the
organizational context.
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| Item Type: | Book Chapter (Commonwealth Reporting Category B) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Chapter 30. Permanent restricted access to paper due to publisher copyright restrictions. |
| Depositing User: | Dr Aileen Cater-Steel |
| Faculty / Department / School: | Historic - Faculty of Business - School of Information Systems |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Aug 2010 06:37 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Aug 2016 03:17 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | e-commerce, adoption, readiness |
| Fields of Research : | 08 Information and Computing Sciences > 0806 Information Systems > 080612 Interorganisational Information Systems and Web Services |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | B Economic Development > 89 Information and Communication Services > 8902 Computer Software and Services > 890299 Computer Software and Services not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/8067 |
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