Factors Influencing E-Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family Small-Medium Enterprises

Family SMEs by comprising more than 98% of private sector in Iran play a substantial role in Iran’s socio-economic body. However, they suffer from unknown image and marketing infirmity, hindering their preparation for a globalized competition, at the crucial time of joining to “WTO”. In this situati...

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Main Author:	Jamali, Seyed Kaveh
Format:	Thesis
Published:	2015
Subjects:	HF5548.32-.34 Electronic commerce
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spelling	my-mmu-ep.68522017-07-12T03:37:30Z Factors Influencing E-Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family Small-Medium Enterprises 2015-08 Jamali, Seyed Kaveh HF5548.32-.34 Electronic commerce Family SMEs by comprising more than 98% of private sector in Iran play a substantial role in Iran’s socio-economic body. However, they suffer from unknown image and marketing infirmity, hindering their preparation for a globalized competition, at the crucial time of joining to “WTO”. In this situation, their e-commerce adoption rate as a potential solution for the existing challenges is questionably low, addressed as the research problem, motivating current study to recognize EC adoption determinants in Iranian family SMEs. For closing the study gap, regarding to distinct attributes in family SMEs, separating them from SMEs in general (i.e. Altruism, conservatism) a rather comprehensive family SMEs’ EC adoption framework was presented based on the main concepts of frequently used SMEs’ EC adoption models, fulfilled by additional factors studied in related literature, with particular relevancy in such SMEs in Iran. The model included the constructs that can be easily translated into an intervention for promotion of EC adoption in Iranian family SMEs. Then, a correlational (survey) field study by means of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), and Sequential Chi-Square Difference (SCD) empirically analyzed the potential direct and moderating effects by using primary quantitative data of 416 usable returned (postal) questionnaires from total questionnaires sent to 1000 selected Iranian family SMEs. 2015-08 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/6852/ http://library.mmu.edu.my/diglib/onlinedb/dig_lib.php phd doctoral Multimedia University Faculty of Management
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topic	HF5548.32-.34 Electronic commerce
spellingShingle	HF5548.32-.34 Electronic commerce Jamali, Seyed Kaveh Factors Influencing E-Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family Small-Medium Enterprises
description	Family SMEs by comprising more than 98% of private sector in Iran play a substantial role in Iran’s socio-economic body. However, they suffer from unknown image and marketing infirmity, hindering their preparation for a globalized competition, at the crucial time of joining to “WTO”. In this situation, their e-commerce adoption rate as a potential solution for the existing challenges is questionably low, addressed as the research problem, motivating current study to recognize EC adoption determinants in Iranian family SMEs. For closing the study gap, regarding to distinct attributes in family SMEs, separating them from SMEs in general (i.e. Altruism, conservatism) a rather comprehensive family SMEs’ EC adoption framework was presented based on the main concepts of frequently used SMEs’ EC adoption models, fulfilled by additional factors studied in related literature, with particular relevancy in such SMEs in Iran. The model included the constructs that can be easily translated into an intervention for promotion of EC adoption in Iranian family SMEs. Then, a correlational (survey) field study by means of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), and Sequential Chi-Square Difference (SCD) empirically analyzed the potential direct and moderating effects by using primary quantitative data of 416 usable returned (postal) questionnaires from total questionnaires sent to 1000 selected Iranian family SMEs.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
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author	Jamali, Seyed Kaveh
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title	Factors Influencing E-Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family Small-Medium Enterprises
title_short	Factors Influencing E-Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family Small-Medium Enterprises
title_full	Factors Influencing E-Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family Small-Medium Enterprises
title_fullStr	Factors Influencing E-Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family Small-Medium Enterprises
title_full_unstemmed	Factors Influencing E-Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family Small-Medium Enterprises
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granting_institution	Multimedia University
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Factors Influencing E-Commerce Adoption in Iranian Family Small-Medium Enterprises

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