Factors affecting e business adoption in SMEs: an empirical research
Purpose Nowadays, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are incrementally using e business tools in order to compete in an extremely hostile market and gain global access. The importance of e business adoption for the economic success and survival of SMEs creates a very interesting field of research. The purpose of this paper is to develop and empirically test a conceptual framework that investigates the factors affecting the e business adoption decision in SMEs. Design/methodology/approach The examination of the proposed conceptual framework was made with the use of a newly developed structured questionnaire that was distributed to a group of Greek SMEs. The questionnaire was distributed to 600 companies, while 161 usable questionnaires were finally returned. exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, linear regression methods and the structural equation modelling (SEM) technique were used to test the research hypotheses. Findings The proposed model explains 71 per cent of the varianc.
J. Enterp. Inf. Manag.