Adoption of New Economy Practices by SMEs in Eastern Europe

Panagiotis Damaskopoulos and Theodoros Evgeniou

European Management Journal, 2003, vol. 21, issue 2, 133-145

Abstract: We study the key drivers of adoption of e-business practices by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Eastern Europe. We discuss the results of a survey of over 900 SME managers in four Eastern European countries and Cyprus. The survey was built on the basis of a framework for studying the adoption of new economy practices that captures the dynamic interrelationships between technological transformations, firms' organisational and knowledge-creating capabilities, emerging market and industry structures, and public institutions and regulatory frameworks. Based on the framework and the survey results, we offer some reflections on new economy practices adoption.

Keywords: e-Business; adoption; New; economy; SMEs; Eastern; Europe; Technology; policy; EU; enlargement; Regulatory; reforms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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