Difficulties of E-Commerce Application in Small and Medium Enterprises

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E-commerce has been particularly influential in the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Along with globalization, information and communications technologies are the best that we have as agents of change among developed economies as well as developing and underdeveloped economies. This paper seeks to understand E-commerce adoption and usage by small and medium-sized enterprises. This paper provides an overview of the study and the research design of the project. It begins with a background to the research, statement of the problem, the significance and concludes of the study.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 472-475)

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3236-3239

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February 2012

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