WHY E-PROCUREMENT DOES NOT WORK IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMES): SOME INSIGHTS FROM AN ITALIAN CASE

Alfredo Biffi and Francesco Sacco

Chapter 14 in The UCLA Anderson Business and Information Technologies (BIT) Project:A Global Study of Business Practice, 2009, pp 415-436 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThere are some generally agreed-upon advantages for enterprises and public administration in using e-procurement systems. Statistics about business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce show widespread adoption and new industries increasingly joining the e-procurement arena. But this trend is not generalized. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are marginal in this trend because they perceive e-procurement more as a threat for their margins than as an opportunity for savings. As a subproject of BIT Italian experience, in joint collaboration with Insubria University (Varese), analyzing the procurement activity of a sample of enterprises in the highly industrialized area of Varese (Italy), the authors draw some conclusions about structural factors influencing the adoption of e-procurement by SMEs and the potential that e-procurement has.

Keywords: GNP Studies; IT Impact; IT Survey; Technology Driven; Business Practice; Business Continuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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