IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijbisy/v4y2009i4p440-459.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The adoption of e-commerce for wood enterprises

Author

Listed:
  • Z.S. Andreopoulou
  • T. Koutroumanidis
  • B. Manos

Abstract

Lately, the internet has become a major means in electronic commerce (e-commerce), as it offers various advantages and benefits. In Greece, there are many Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the context of the timber trade and the wood processing and products sector that have already created a web presence in various stages of maturity. This paper studies the adoption of e-commerce in websites that support e-commerce activities within the timber trade and the wood processing and products sector. Therefore, the paper aims to identify and evaluate their qualitative and quantitative content characteristics, classify them as to their geographical distribution, rank them according to 13 content characteristics/criteria using the multicriteria method of PROMETHEE II and classify them in groups of similar adoption. The case of Greece was selected and the retrieved websites were studied and then ranked and classified accordingly. The findings of this study reveal the rate of adoption of e-commerce in the sector and can be a valuable model for the designers of the websites that promote e-commerce activities within the wider area of wood.

Suggested Citation

  • Z.S. Andreopoulou & T. Koutroumanidis & B. Manos, 2009. "The adoption of e-commerce for wood enterprises," International Journal of Business Information Systems, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(4), pages 440-459.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbisy:v:4:y:2009:i:4:p:440-459
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=24505
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Chatzinikolaou, Parthena & Raggi, Meri & Viaggi, Davide, 2015. "The evaluation of Ecosystem Services production: an application in the Province of Ferrara," Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA), vol. 4(3), pages 1-25, December.
    2. Chatzinikolaou, Parthena & Manos, Basil D. & Bournaris, Thomas, 2012. "Classification of rural areas in Europe using social sustainability indicators," 2012 First Congress, June 4-5, 2012, Trento, Italy 124104, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA).
    3. Chatzinikolaou, Parthena & Viaggi, Davide, 2015. "Evaluation of ecosystem services production under different Agricultural Policy Scenarios," 2015 Fourth Congress, June 11-12, 2015, Ancona, Italy 207356, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA).
    4. Georgios TSEKOUROPOULOS & Zacharoula ANDREOPOULOU & Christiana KOLIOUSKA & Theodoros KOUTROUMANIDIS & Christos BATZIOS & Panagiotis LEFAKIS, 2012. "Marketing Policies Through The Internet: The Case Of Skiing Centers In Greece," Scientific Bulletin - Economic Sciences, University of Pitesti, vol. 11(1), pages 66-78.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijbisy:v:4:y:2009:i:4:p:440-459. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=172 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.