This study examines the factors influencing the variations of e-commerce adoption decisions in small and medium businesses in Thailand. Based on the literature review, three groups of factors are identified, including organizational, technology, and environmental factors. Firms are classified into three main groups based on the extent to which an organization is relatively earlier to adopt e-co...

By combining two independent research streams, we examined the determinant factors of strategic value and adoption of electronic commerce as perceived by top managers in small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the midwest region of the US. We proposed a research model that suggested three factors that have been found to be influential in previous research in the perception of strategic valu...

The literature provides an extensive list of incentives and barriers to adoption and use of e-business and e-commerce information technology (EEIT) by small and medium businesses (SMEs). The objective of this current research was to consolidate these factors and determine their level of influence, either positively or negatively from the adopter’s perspective, on the adoption decision. A set of...

“ICT use in Small and Medium Business in Poland. Growth factors and inhibitors” is a publication describing information technology penetration and change factors for SMB market. The basic goal of the publication was to present current picture of ICT use in transition economy of the European emerging market like Poland. This publication is dedicated to: a) policy makers specializing in SMB on em...

Cloud computing has become the buzzword in the industry today. Though, it is not an entirely new concept but in today’s digital age, it has become ubiquitous due to the proliferation of Internet, broadband, mobile devices, better bandwidth and mobility requirements for end-users (be it consumers, SMEs or enterprises). In this paper, the focus is on the perceived inclination of micro and small b...

This paper presents an e-Knowledge application able to support decision makers in strategic planning for the growth of a territory. The application integrates a decision support system and provides e-Knowledge services for the analysis of territorial dynamics by processing and modelling huge amounts of data through mining techniques, in order to discover rules and patterns in a distributed and ...

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in most world economies suffer from a series of intense economic pressures from local, regional and international markets. Although these problems are microeconomic to the small and medium-sized business, they are directly related to macro economic factors, particularly in the case of labor. One of the main pressures small and medium-sized businesses suf...

It is widely accepted that employees in small business suffer from a lack of knowledge and skills. This lack of skills means that small companies will miss out on new business opportunities. This is even more evident with respect to the adoption of Internet marketing in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This paper reports a pilot research project TRIMAR, which aims to develop a web-based int...