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    Electronic Commerce Projects Adoption and Evaluation in Australian SMEs: Preliminary Findings

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    Authors
    Lin, Chad
    Cripps, H.
    Bode, S.
    Date
    2005
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Lin, C. and Cripps, H. and Bode, S. 2005. Electronic Commerce Projects Adoption and Evaluation in Australian SMEs: Preliminary Findings, in Douglas R. Vogel ... [et al.] (ed), 18th Bled eConference (Bled 2005), Jun 6 2005, pp. 1-14. Bled, Slovenia: Publishing House ?Moderna organizacija?.
    Source Title
    eIntegration in Action
    Source Conference
    18th Bled eConference (Bled 2005)
    Additional URLs
    http://domino.fov.uni-mb.si/ecomframes.nsf/pages/bled2005
    ISBN
    961-232-178-7
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10202
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    IT investments in electronic commerce (e-commerce) are used by organizations, as part of their business strategies, to assist in the inter-organizational acquisition of goods into the value chain and to provide interfaces between customers, vendors, suppliers and sellers. Careful evaluation and adoption of e-commerce projects can assist SMEs in achieving their goals. The results of this research showed that most Australian SMEs interviewed appeared to fail in some ways to conduct a proper assessment of business needs before adopting IT investment in e-commerce. Less than one-third of the Australian SMEs interviewed had carried out some sort of evaluation processes. Most users within these SMEs were not involved in the initial phases of adopting and implementing ecommerce projects and the use of these systems was generally forced upon the them by the senior management. Moreover, the e-commerce systems adopted by the Australian SMEs were not integrated well with other systems. Furthermore, there appeared to be a lack of obvious linkage between the expected outcomes of the e-commerce projects adoption and organizational goals.

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