The Internet is changing the ways of doing business in the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of developing countries. The rapid diffusion of the Internet in China brings Chinese SMEs new business opportunities. This paper proposes a framework for studying the adoption of e-commerce in Chinese SMEs. The research model combines organizational innovation adoption literature and the theory ...

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in many economies. In New Zealand, for example, 97% of all manufacturing companies employ less than 100 staff, and generate the predominant part of this industry sector’s economic output. Manufacturing SMEs as a group also have a significant impact on the environment. This situation is similar in many developed economies, includin...

Throughout recent years a lot of research has been done to develop enterprise architecture (EA) approaches for large and complex enterprises. Consequently, an array of tools has been developed for these large enterprises to aid in EA management. However, traditional small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are very important for economy, have to a great extent been neglected. Recently r...

abstract small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) play a major role in national economy. e-business processes provide many opportunities for these companies to compete in regional and international markets. this study seeks to analyze the factors affecting e-business implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises. for this purpose, 10 factors and 61 indices were identified based on the l...

Integration technologies like Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Web Services allow organisations to collaborate with their partners, increase flexibility and gain competitive advantages. Despite the benefits that the integration of Information Systems (IS) can offer to enterprises, little attention has paid on the adoption of integration software by Small to Medium Sized Enterprises ...

the main purpose of this research was to determinate the factors effective on environmental attitude of owners and managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) by using structural equation modeling. according to the data from agriculture department of two counties, small and medium-sized enterprises were estimated at 540 units. using cochran’s formula determined the sample & 202 owners...

A model of website adoption by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is developed by considering literature supporting electronic commerce adoption and electronic data interchange adoption. A survey of 89 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) without websites was used to test a model hypothesizing relationships among: perceived benefits, perceived pressure, organizational readiness and ...

Rapidly changing global markets have led to unprecedented growth in small business sectors.1 Firms that fall within the category of ‘small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) include micro-enterprises employing under 10 people, small enterprises of 11–50 people, and medium-sized enterprises of 51–250 people. This growth, combined with the prevalence of SMEs in the European Union (99% of organi...