To What Extent Would E-mall Enable SMEs to Adopt E-Commerce?
Abstract
This paper presents findings from a study of e-commerce adoption by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Saudi Arabia. Only tiny number of Saudi commercial organizations, mostly medium and large companies from the manufacturing sector, in involved in e-commerce implementation. The latest report released in 2010 by The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) in Saudi Arabia shows that only 8% of businesses sell online. Accordingly new research has been conducted to explore to what extent electronic mall (e-mall) would enable SMEs in Saudi Arabia to adopt and use online channels for their sales. A quantitative analysis of responses obtained from a survey of 108 SMEs in Saudi Arabia was conducted. The main results of the current analysis demonstrate the significant of organizational factors, and technology and environmental factors. Interestingly, traditional & cultural factors have no significance in this regard.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1211.2402,
title = {To What Extent Would E-mall Enable SMEs to Adopt E-Commerce?},
author = {Adel A. Bahaddad and Rayed AlGhamdi and Luke Houghton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2402},
year = {2012}
}