خلاصة:
Studying the effects of B2B e-commerce adoption on the SMEs process
and structure is crucial for businesses. Extant researches have investigated
the impacts of adopting e-commerce and provided some findings, but the
varied theoretical approaches have produced results that reflect the
impacts of either external or internal factors of adopting e-commerce.
However, these approaches did not use a complete model with a broader
view of the influential factors and since there is an obvious co-relation
between these factors, it is essential to further study and examines the
factors behind this problem. This paper attempts to provide a complete
framework that covers the two types of factors for which the enterprises
can use as a reference. The model was developed based on the latest
research findings and enriched by some latest countries adoption trial like
China and Iran.
ملخص الجهاز:
For example, studying the effects of e-commerce adoption on China SMEs found that it has a positive effect on the organization's performance and resulted in new business relationships, which makes new business and new marketing paradigms [17].
Indeed, Germain and Claycomb [12] found that the connected costs to the operation management, supply chain management, transporting, inventory and manufacturing products have high importance in developing and implementing organizational e-commerce process with low cost network that fit the business environment [12].
Indeed, the researches' review shows a consensus that the effect of the e-commerce adoption is controlled by a group of internally and externally variables in SMEs business environment.
Framework of Internal &External Influential Factors And since internationally an increase rate of e-commerce sales and return on investment is observable in SMEs [3,14], this research would concentrate mainly on analysing how the above mentioned factors would positively affect the final outcome with adopting B2B e-commerce and contribute to business success.
A framework with the most influential factors on how the adoption of B2B e-commerce impacts the SMEs performance is drawn in Figure 1.
A. Internaf factors An analytical study indicates that each organization has internal influences from its business resources and structure like [10,8]: • Management support • Firm size • IT integration • Human capital • Organizational culture In order to find the impacts of these factors we build some hypothesis to check the validity of their positive impacts from different research views.