Adoption of electronic commerce amongst small and medium enterprises

• Main Authors: Thi, Lip Sam, Ang, Chooi Leng
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2006
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/1366/1/Thi_Lip_Sam%2CDr_%26_Ang_Chooi_Leng%5B2%5D.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/1366/; http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000242843

This paper presents initial phase research results that indicate the adoption of e-commerce applications among Malaysian SMEs from the manufacturing sector.Thruough a review of related research on innovation adoption and diffusion, two dimensional model was developed to depict e-commerce adoption.The results indicate that simple e-commerce apprications would be adopted first before SMEs embarked on more complex e-commerce applications.In terms of extent of usage, it was found that a majority of Malaysian mamfacturing SMEs hove adopted ecommerce applications on a parallel basis while vety few SMEs have substituted e-commerce applications for traditional method- of conducting business.