Title:
An
empirical study of website adoption among the Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia
Abstract: Internet
has become more and more important not only in education field but also
in business and economics filed as well as military development. The
exercise of web site among the companies have increasing rapidly in the
recent year, result from the globalization era. As a result, internet
WWW has become more and more important in business sector regardless
service or manufacture industries. Web site has become an instrument or
Information Communication Technology (ICT) to link the world under one
roof, and adoption of the web site has also reveal as a competitive
advantage of the company. Start from the developing work to the
new generation of internet, it is undeniable that still lots of the
users perceived that the threat still exists and became a barrier from
them to adopt this new technology. Factor influence the perception of
users, especially those who doing their transaction online, is security
problems. Companies are not dare to put their company online, are also
review to the same answer. Virtual thefts are the most concern of SMIs
companies in our local market, and other factor might also prevent SMIs
to enjoy the benefits that yield from the internet WWW. A
questionnaire survey based on the awareness of barrier and benefits
towards the web site adoption in local SMIs has been conducted. Factor
affecting the web site adoption are also collected. Primary data
collected are analyzed via the Statistical Package for the Social
Science (SPSS) software. After analyzing, few factor that
affecting the web site adoption in local SMIs are acquired. This is the
most interesting part of the study, since that the results yield are
met the research objectives and give the more understanding and clear
picture to the SMIs companies. So the few sectors that influence might
attract the concern from the companies in adopting web site. And the
end of the study, few recommendations are rise in order for the SMIs
companies to concern more.
Author:
Kogilah
a/p Narayanasamy, Santhapparaj, and Uchenna Eze