Paper
Framework for Selecting an Appropriate E-Business Model in SMEs
- Authors:
- Mohsen Shafiei Nikabadi; Ahmad Jafarian
- Abstract
- The main purpose of this paper is to present a Framework for Selecting an Appropriate E-Business Model in SMEs. This research is an applied one and in terms of the nature is descriptive and survey. Correlation analysis will be used for identifying the proposed model and evaluating its ability for determining relationship among major dimensions of the model. The instrument used for studying the research hypotheses is the questionnaire. In this applied Research, a framework is introduced for selecting e-business in SMEs using survey conducted on 105 managers of small and medium enterprises in Iran (available managers from small and medium enterprises in the research community). The results that were obtained from mean test, have suggested that among 18 considered factors, three of them, intensity of competitive prices, internal integration on sales and marketing processes and development of IT tools, have most important in selecting an appropriate e-business model for SMEs, and two factors, external integration in financial and human resources activities, are not important factors in determining an appropriate e-business model for SMEs. In this study we want to determine a framework for selecting an appropriate e-business model in SMEs with generalizing framework provided by Hayes and Finnegan [21] and Hanafizadeh and Shafiei Nikabadi [20], until through this, pave the ground for SMEs in line of e-business that have a major share in the national economy of each country and their move can be accelerated in this direction.
- Keywords
- E-Business; Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs); Economic Control; Process Integration; Innovation; Sourcing
- StartPage
- 86
- EndPage
- 96
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