Title :
Factors constraining the adoption of e-commerce among China´s small and mid-sized enterprises
Author :
Junwei, Liu ; Huashen, Li
Author_Institution :
Sociology Department, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Abstract :
With the development of internet technologies, e-commerce has already become a common practice among Chinese small and mid-sized enterprises. This research, based on an empirical survey in Wuhan, examines the external as well internal factors affecting small and mid-sized enterprises´ adoption of e-commerce, and discovers that small and mid-sized enterprises´ present technological capacities, organizational goals, external environment and enterprise culture may take a positive impact on their decision-making process.
Keywords :
Cultural differences; Information technology; Internet; Law; Organizations; Reliability; adoption of e-commerce; small and mid-sized enterprises;
Conference_Titel :
Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou, China
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7616-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICISE.2010.5690371