Adoption issues of business-to-business Internet commerce in European SMEs

A. Scupola

doi:10.1109/HICSS.2002.994141

Adoption issues of business-to-business Internet commerce in European SMEs

A. Scupola^*

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Abstract

This article presents the preliminary findings from an explorative case study concerning barriers, benefits and use of SMEs adoption of business-to-business Internet commerce. The main findings were that SMEs embrace the Internet mainly just by chance; the government and public administration are seen as the main change agents in the adoption and diffusion of Internet commerce among SMEs; cost is not an important factor in the adoption decision; setting up an advanced home page with a shopping basket for buying and selling on the Internet is often seen as a minus rather then a plus for competitive advantage; complementary factors among which digital imaging technologies and spreading of English as a common business language have to be developed in order to increase the value of Internet commerce to small business.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2002
Editors	Ralph H. Sprague
Number of pages	10
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society Press
Publication date	2002
Pages	2119-2128
Article number	994141
ISBN (Electronic)	0769514359
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2002.994141
Publication status	Published - 2002
Event	35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2002 - Big Island, United States Duration: 7 Jan 2002 → 10 Jan 2002

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Conference	35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2002
Country/Territory	United States
City	Big Island
Period	07/01/2002 → 10/01/2002

Series	Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Volume	2002-January
ISSN	1530-1605

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© 2002 IEEE.

Keywords

Business
Costs
Digital images
Electronic commerce
Electronic mail
Government
Internet
Natural languages
Power generation economics
Samarium

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Scupola, A 2002, Adoption issues of business-to-business Internet commerce in European SMEs. in RH Sprague (ed.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2002., 994141, IEEE Computer Society Press, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, vol. 2002-January, pp. 2119-2128, 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2002, Big Island, United States, 07/01/2002. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2002.994141

Adoption issues of business-to-business Internet commerce in European SMEs. / Scupola, A.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2002. ed. / Ralph H. Sprague. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002. p. 2119-2128 994141 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol. 2002-January).

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