期刊名称：International Journal of Business and Management
印刷版ISSN：1833-3850
电子版ISSN：1833-8119
出版年度：2011
卷号：6
期号：9
页码：122
DOI：10.5539/ijbm.v6n9p122
出版社：Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要：Some sectors in Saudi Arabia are slow in adopting eCommerce technologies for running their business transactions, and that is due to an internal set of factors (related to organizations) or an external set of factors (related to infrastructure and governmental support). We have noticed that most of the studies in this subject covered either internal factors or external factors, but not both. Moreover, most of the papers that studied eCommerce adoption factors in developing economies center on the environmental, infrastructural and governmental areas only, and overlook the organizational factors, while the focus of the subject studied and researched on developed economies was organizational (SMEs and large enterprises) related adoption factors by considering the technology infrastructure and government support as taken for granted, which is not the case in developing economies. The objectives of this study are 1) to find out the level of eCommerce adoption in Saudi Arabia, and 2) to identify the factors that affect the adoption of eCommerce. By this, the output of the study can help the policy maker of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in Saudi Arabia to direct the related activities toward the most effective local factors that will enable and leverage eCommerce potential and usage on one hand, and on the other hand the study will identify the promising local opportunities for eCommerce infrastructure providers (local banks, system integrators, IT solution providers, and major telecom operators) by discovering the distinctive eCommerce adoption factors.
