An Integrated Model of the Adoption and Extent of E-Commerce in Firms

Jordi Vilaseca-Requena, Joan Torrent-Sellens (), Antoni Meseguer-Artola and Inma Rodríguez-Ardura ()

International Advances in Economic Research, 2007, vol. 13, issue 2, 222-241

Abstract: This work aims to explain firms’ decisions to adopt Internet-based e-commerce, and the extent to which the adopters subsequently implement e-commerce to commercialize their products and services. We examine various types of factors previously considered by the literature (competitive environment, organizational characteristics, strategic orientation, innovative capacity, managers’ characteristics, IT equipment possessed and the use made of it). The analytical model developed here on the basis of a sample of 2,038 firms suggests that the factors influencing the adoption decision are different from those that eventually influence the results of firms’ commercial operations on the Internet. Likewise, we discuss the contribution of each type of determinant and the implications. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2007

Keywords: Internet based e-commerce; firms; IT diffusion; M00; 032 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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