The scenario of the adoption of e-commerce amongst Malaysian small and medium enterprises in manufacturing sector

• Main Authors: Mohamad Noor, Rafidah, Hussin, Husnayati
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: TS Manufactures
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/14639/1/15.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/14639/; http://www.icoec.my/index.php/proceedings/8-icoec-2005-proceedings

The emergence of E-commerce in the midst of bricks and mortar era has transformed the way peoples conducting business transaction.Consequently, the bricks and click approach become dominant.The success stories of a few first movers such as Amazon.com and Dell.com, has motivated a few more especially big companies to join in the battle. However, Small and Medium Enterprises has just started to realize the important of E-commerce in current and future business paradigm. This paper reports a scenario on the adoption of E-commerce among Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises in manufacturing sector.The analysis is conducted based on 106 responses collected through mailed-questionnaire to randomly selected manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia