scholarly journals E-commerce adoption among micro, small and medium enterprises in Brunei Darussalam

2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Toe Framework ◽  
Medium Enterprises

The advancement of the Internet has enabled firms including micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Brunei Darussalam (Brunei) to adopt e-commerce. E-commerce has helped firms to easily buy and sell their products or services online. The advancement of the Internet and e-commerce has brought many benefits to the firms especially the MSMEs as it could help to reduce cost, enhance the firm's relationship with their customers and/or suppliers and increase business opportunities. To stay competitive, MSMEs must be aware of the potential benefits that e-commerce could bring. Moreover, before the firms have decided to adopt e-commerce, there are several factors that they should consider. This study aims to find out the factors that could affect the MSMEs' decision to adopt e-commerce by applying the technology-organizational-environmental (TOE) framework.

scholarly journals Corporate parents, initial legitimacy, and resource acquisition in small and medium firms: An empirical examination

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Murphy ◽  
Neil Tocher
Keyword(s):  
Firm Size ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Resource Acquisition ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Credit Scores ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Firms

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) commonly struggle to acquire needed financial, human, and technological resources. The above being stated, recent scholarly research argues that SMEs that are able to successfully navigate the legitimacy threshold are better able to gather the resources they need to survive and grow. This article provides an empirical test of that claim by examining whether the presence of a corporate parent positively influences SME resource acquisition. Results of the study show that SMEs with corporate parents, when compared to like-sized independent SMEs, have higher credit scores, have more complete management teams, use more computers, and are more likely to be on the Internet. These differences are most pronounced for very small firms and diminish in significance as firm size increases. Study implications include the notion that presence of a corporate parent likely represents a successful navigation of the legitimacy threshold, positively increasing SME resource acquisition.

Electronic Commerce Opportunities, Challenges and Organizational Issues for Australian SMEs

2011 ◽  
pp. 297-314
Author(s):  
Mohini Singh
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Process Reengineering ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Organizational Issues ◽  
Integrated Environment ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Australian small businesses are increasingly adopting the Internet and the World Wide Web as a medium of doing business to reach new customers and suppliers, cut costs and expand business. They also use it to enhance communication between buyers and suppliers. This chapter discusses the findings of an exploratory study in Australia that identified the objectives, opportunities and challenges of e-commerce experienced by small businesses that were mostly early adopters of the Internet as a medium of trade. E-commerce issues presented in this chapter include research findings, supported by theory from literature. Electronic commerce opportunities, challenges and organizational learning by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Australia indicate that small businesses have created value with e-commerce, although benefits are long term and dependent on a plethora of technological, business and management issues that need to be addressed. Due to the fast-evolving nature of e-business and technological developments that are new to many small businesses, challenges such as managing the expanded flow of information, cross-border taxation, authentication, trust and security, as well as the high costs of acquiring the required technologies and skills, are prevalent. Other challenges of e-commerce range from Web site maintenance to business process reengineering for an integrated environment. Research findings also highlight the fact that small businesses need formal methods of evaluating the performance of e-commerce to realize the benefits of investment and to further expand their e-commerce venture.

Internet Marketing & SMEs

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel John Doiron
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Internet Marketing ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Tools And Techniques

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been adopting the internet at a feverish pace. Recent studies have shown that up to 85% of SMEs in industrialized countries have web sites, yet less than half are utilizing these web sites to securely transact with their customers. Consumer media consumption is moving away from traditional media, like newspapers, to the internet. These revelations coupled with the growth of tools and techniques available to support online marketing, make it a perfect time for SMEs to market their web sites and ultimately succeed online. In this chapter we will present and support the hypothesis that SMEs should stop investing in their web site’s design and functionality and start investing in efforts to market their web sites online, no matter how lousy their web site may be in comparison to today’s standards. With the support of two case studies, illustrating the successful utilization of internet marketing by two very different SMEs, we will relate how a SME can effectively market their web site online. We will also discuss the tools and techniques available to help an SME successfully begin a journey of internet marketing.

The Role of SMEs in Promoting Electronic Commerce in Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 209-226
Author(s):  
Celia Romm ◽  
Wal Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Customer Base ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Virtual Business

The primary emphasis of much of the literature on electronic commerce (EC) is on its global nature. The literature is replete with examples of companies that, over a relatively short period of time, made a successful transition from a local, small business, to a global enterprise, with customers and suppliers based all over the world. The literature in EC, both in the popular media and the learned journals, attributes this phenomenon to the fact that with access to the Internet, many businesses can sell globally without having to make an investment in “bricks and mortar.” The rhetoric that EC is free from constraints of geography is, however, contradicted by a growing evidence that, particularly for small and medium enterprises (defined in this chapter as “organizations with less than 500 employees”), business on the Internet is not necessarily as profitable and risk free as it is supposed to be. Establishing an EC “shop-front” may be a relatively painless exercise, but having prospective customers notice that shop-front, having them actually transact with the virtual business, and setting the business so that it successfully copes with the demands of a virtual customer base are all challenges that most small and medium enterprises (SMEs) find difficult to meet.

Technological Change Perspective for ERP Implementation in Small and Medium Enterprises

2020 ◽  
pp. 1506-1516
Author(s):  
Jessy Nair ◽  
Aarthy Chellasamy
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Erp Implementation ◽  
Research Article ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Toe Framework ◽  
Organization Framework ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Organizational Preparedness

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) trail large organizations in leveraging IT systems. SMEs are beginning to understand the significance of implementing IT systems like ERP for improving their preparedness in business processes. Hence the objective of this research article is to develop a framework to analyse SME's organizational preparedness for implementing the technology. This research applies a General Morphological Analysis (GMA) framework to explore suitable models and variables for IT change preparedness to realize the benefits of ERP implementation in SMEs. An SMEs drawback in implementing IT tools is specifically due to a lack of knowledge and an acute shortage of resources like investment and manpower. The review of literature in this article using general morphological analysis is novel for ERP implementation in the SME sector. Based on the review of articles, a morphology with a technology organization framework and environment (TOE) framework which evaluates technological, organizational and environment is most adequate to understand the IT readiness for ERP among SMEs.

The adoption of cloud computing in small and medium enterprises: a developing country perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abul Khayer ◽  
Nusrat Jahan ◽  
Md. Nahin Hossain ◽  
Md. Yahin Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cloud Computing Adoption ◽  
Effort Expectancy ◽  
Toe Framework ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Organisational Agility

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of cloud computing adoption in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), further, to measure the effect of cloud computing adoption on cloud-supported firm performance through enhancing organisational agility. Design/methodology/approach The research model is developed by combining two popular theoretical models, namely, the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) and the technology–organisation–environment (TOE) framework. Data are collected from 372 SMEs to test the model. The strengths of widely used structural equation modelling (SEM) are applied to analyse the data. Findings This study reveals that the significant predictors of cloud computing adoption are performance expectancy; effort expectancy; absorptive capacity; data security and privacy; and perceived trust. Also, cloud computing adoption positively influences firm performance directly and through organisational agility. The results of importance–performance map analysis indicate that effort expectancy falls in the critical zone, which needs to be improved. Originality/value This research is one of few that blends the strengths of UTAUT and TOE framework. The research outcomes yield noteworthy suggestions to cloud providers, managers and government policymakers on ways of motivating the spread of cloud computing in developing countries.

scholarly journals Measuring the Readiness of SMEs for Eco-Innovation and Industrial Symbiosis: Development of a Screening Tool

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela C. A. Pigosso ◽  
Andreas Schmiegelow ◽  
Maj Munch Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Screening Tool ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Industrial Symbiosis ◽  
Business Innovation ◽  
Green Business ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Despite the high business, innovation and sustainability potential linked with eco-innovation and industrial symbiosis, limited implementation can be observed in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In order to enhance the implementation of these concepts in SMEs, the main goal of this paper is to propose a screening tool to identify and evaluate SMEs’ potential for eco-innovation, with a special focus on industrial symbiosis and green business models aspects. In order to accomplish this goal, an action research was developed in two cycles: (1) development and testing of the screening prototype; and (2) improvement and scale-up of the enhanced screening tool, in close collaboration with the research partners. In addition to enabling a better understanding about their own internal processes and activities, the evaluation of the potential of 108 SMEs for eco-innovation provided them with detailed insights about how to reach the potential benefits with industrial symbiosis and green business models. Differently from the identified existing tools, the screening tool proposed in this research aims at supporting companies to understand what their potential for eco-innovation is, combining wider eco-innovation and industrial symbiosis opportunities and green business models, supplemented with a readiness evaluation to explore the existing potential.

scholarly journals Uso de las TIC como estrategia competitiva de las micro y pequeñas empresas. Caso Mazatlán, Sinaloa

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
María Amparo Lizárraga Morales ◽  
Marco Antonio Prieto García ◽  
Juana Eugenia Olaguez Torres ◽  
Piero Espino Roman
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
La Red ◽  
Medium Enterprises

El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar el uso de las TIC en los directivos de las Mypes de Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Se empleó la metodología cuantitativa, con alcance descriptivo, se seleccionó una muestra de 401 empresas de una población de 20, 761 Mypes. Los resultados muestran que el 53% utilizan programas especializados para administrar el negocio, siendo el WhatsApp la red social más usada para asuntos personales y laborales con el 91.8% y 79.4%, seguido del 27.5% que utiliza programas de computadora de apoyo a la producción; el 11.5% indicaron no hacer uso de computadoras. Se concluye incluir y promover el desarrollo tecnológico mediante el uso de SRM y CRM en la gestión administrativa para generar un valor agregado en las empresas. Abstract  The objective of the present investigation is to know the correlation that exists between the use of technologies and the level of studies that entrepreneurs of small and medium enterprises have, for this purpose, the quantitative method of research was applied, information was obtained of 377 questionnaires applied to entrepreneurs of Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas, Guanajuato. The results show that the businessman still performs activities manually and do not make purchases on the internet, it is concluded that the higher the level of studies of entrepreneurs, the greater the use of technology in business administration.

scholarly journals The Role of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Recovery of the National Economic

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-251
Author(s):  
Ikhsan Lubis
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Medium Enterprises

The application of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) has a considerable influence in contributing and developing as the main supporter in the implementation of National Economic Recovery (NER) programs. This paper leads to a qualitative descriptive approach. This research has been developed using a literature review approach. This conceptual approach is carried out by referring to sources, namely books, journals and the internet.” The research design uses descriptive qualitative which can be interpreted that a series of activities aimed at getting the results of the research as it is at the conclusion.  problems that exist with existing policies in order to realize the program from (NER) and as a result of the Covid19 pandemic, there are still some obstacles and problems in the protection and empowerment of cooperatives and MSMEs.

E-Commerce in Small and Medium Enterprises in Sri Lanka

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-68
Author(s):  
Kennedy D Gunawardana
Keyword(s):  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Business Organization ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Business World ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship

The growth of information technology in the business world is spreading at a phenomenal rate. The success of a business organization stands at the usage of IT in their business. Growth of e-commerce is the new born business method, which has originated through an extensive usage of IT in their business. This study will focus on the level of adoption of e-commerce in a population of 30 SMEs under the BOI, the relationship between firm-based characteristics and the adoption of e-commerce and also more importantly find out the critical success factors and discover potential benefits of adoption of e-commerce in SMEs. The results on the adoption of e- commerce showed a significant relationship with the two firm-based characteristics. That is management involvement and adoption of IT. The study also identified e- marketing and supplier service as the critical success factors in adoption of e-commerce.

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