IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rnd/arimbr/v2y2011i6p276-286.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Electronic Commerce Applications among Indian Small and Medium Enterprises

Author

Listed:
  • Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi
  • Seyed Mohammad Sadeq Khaksar
  • Bairagi Kachardas Pitamber

Abstract

The cutting edge for business today is electronic commerce. The main vehicle of electronic commerce unequivocally is the Internet and the World Wide Web. With the rapid advancement in the Internet software and hardware and the infrastructure, the electronic commerce is also becoming more and more popular. Many large corporations, small and medium companies and individuals are investing more and more in the Internet business. The main purpose of this paper is to study the effect of e-commerce applications on the operational performance of small and medium enterprises. There are many different types of e-commerce usages that may influence operational performances; in this research we group them according to five different categories: electronic advertising, payment system, marketing, customer support service, order and delivery. For analyzing the data derived from questionnaire, Goodness of Fit Tests and Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis were used and the software’s which has been used for analyzing the data were LISREL 8.54 and SPSS 18. Survey is considered to be the most appropriate and suitable for this study. According to statistical analysis in this research the results indicates that the electronic commerce applications has been influential on the operational performance in the Indian SMEs.

Suggested Citation

  • Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi & Seyed Mohammad Sadeq Khaksar & Bairagi Kachardas Pitamber, 2011. "Electronic Commerce Applications among Indian Small and Medium Enterprises," Information Management and Business Review, AMH International, vol. 2(6), pages 276-286.
    • Handle: RePEc:rnd:arimbr:v:2:y:2011:i:6:p:276-286
    DOI: 10.22610/imbr.v2i6.908
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ojs.amhinternational.com/index.php/imbr/article/view/908/908
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ojs.amhinternational.com/index.php/imbr/article/view/908
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22610/imbr.v2i6.908?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Alex Berrill & Sigi Goode & Dennis Hart, 2004. "Managerial Expectations of Internet Commerce Adoption after the "Tech Wreck" of 2000 - An Australian Perspective," Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(3), pages 45-63, July.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.

      More about this item

      Statistics

      Access and download statistics

      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:rnd:arimbr:v:2:y:2011:i:6:p:276-286. 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.

      If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with 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: Muhammad Tayyab (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ojs.amhinternational.com/index.php/imbr .

      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.