• DocumentCode
    2126899
  • 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
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    4-6 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2010 2nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hangzhou, China
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7616-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICISE.2010.5690371
  • Filename
    5690371