Electronic commerce adoption by SMEs in Singapore

Author

Jon, Kendall ; Lai, Tung Lai ; Hui, Chua Khoon ; Dennis, Ng Chia Hong ; Tan Suan Meng

Author_Institution

Centre for Improving Teaching Effectiveness, Wayne State Univ., NE, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

6-6 Jan. 2001

Abstract

The study surveys the receptivity of Singaporean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the adoption of electronic commerce. Utilising a portion of E.M. Rogers´ (1995) model of innovation diffusion as the framework and treating electronic commerce (EC) as a form of new innovation, we analyse factors affecting EC diffusion. A multiple regression analysis is carried out, with the five attributes of innovation highlighted by Rogers, to determine the attributes that affect the willingness to adopt. Of the five factors affecting adoption of electronic commerce by SMEs, only relative advantage, compatibility and trialability appear significant, with the overall regression explaining around 36 per cent of willingness to adopt.

Keywords

Internet; electronic commerce; government policies; research and development management; statistical analysis; technology transfer; EC diffusion; SMEs; Singapore; electronic commerce adoption; innovation diffusion; multiple regression analysis; relative advantage; small and medium-sized enterprises; trialability; willingness to adopt; Asia; Costs; Education; Educational institutions; Electronic commerce; Internet; Regression analysis; Samarium; Technological innovation; Telecommunication computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2001. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Maui, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0981-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2001.927068

Filename

927068