Barriers to Adopting E-business in SMEs in India: An Exploratory Study
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The use of E-business in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) has been recently received an enormous attention in information systems research by both academic and practitioners. E-commerce has been empowering the small industry at a great speed and is becoming a widely spread opportunity for them to avail with the adoption of new and efficient technologies to enhance businesses; Indian SMEs should be able to compete worldwide. Due to limited research conducted in developing countries, our understanding of the nature and importance of barriers inhibiting E-commerce (EC) adoption among the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been fragmented and incomplete. This paper aims at examining the main facilitators and barriers to the adoption of E-business technologies by the SMEs.
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