An Empirical Study of the Hindrance Factors of E-commerce Development in Small and Medium Enterprises

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10.2991/iaw-sc.2013.59How to use a DOI?

Keywords

small-and-median enterprises; -commerce development; indrance factors; ackground factors

Abstract

This article summarizes and reviews some Chinese and international factors that hinder the e-commerce development of Chinese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) based on an empirical research from a new perspective. This study shows that the hindrance factors are multi-fold, and that the hindrance force exhibits differences between different hindrance factors and also between different stages. Leader factor is obviously significant in the early stage of e-commerce development. But in its development stage, informatization level and e-commerce application level play a critical role. Technical factors and the conditions of the industry are closely connected as different kinds of enterprises have different demands in technology in their process to develop e-commerce. What’s more, background factors such as human resources have been always playing important roles in developing e-commerce in SMEs.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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