Electronic commerce adoption in SMEs / Winie Anak Jaret

Previous studies have indicated that electronic commerce development offers a promising way for
business to meet the challenges of the ever changing environment. Buyer can gather information
rapidly about the availability of the products or services, evaluate, or negotiate with vendors.
However, the study about Small and Medium Enterprises in Malaysia still limited or infancy.
Thus, this study is to investigate the electronic commerce adoption by businesses in Small and
Medium Enterprises in Malaysia. This study focuses on busbesses at Shah Alam only. This
achieved by circulating a set of questionnaire to examine the factors of adoption of electronic
commerce application by the SMEs.The study found that the adoption of electronic commerce by
SMEs in Shah Alam still at a lower level or can be said as infancy, although the potential benefits
were perceived to be important