- Title
- Action research methods
- Creator
- Braun, Patrice
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/44137
- Identifier
- vital:5850
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-575-7.ch001
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781591405757
- Abstract
- To date, most research into the implications of the Internet for SMEs has focused on individual business barriers to ICT and e-commerce adoption. Such research has shown that SMEs tend to be time- and resource-poor, with their size being their main disadvantage vis-à-vis ICT adoption (OECD, 2000; Van Beveren & Thompson, 2002). Perhaps the question is not whether small firms have adopted ICT, but rather where are small firms in terms of their ICT adoption. ICT encompasses a series of separate yet interrelated components; for example, electronic mail (e-mail), the Internet, the Web, and e-commerce, which can be adopted in a variety of social and business settings. Hence, it is suggested that ICT cannot be considered as a single technological innovation but rather as a series of (process) innovations, potentially resulting in variable ICT adoption patterns (Walczuch, Van Braven, & Lundgren, 2000).
- Publisher
- Hershey IGI Global
- Relation
- Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology p. 1-5
- Rights
- © 2006
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
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