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Title

Fostering e-commerce among Australian SMEs

Author(s)

Yang, Yun;  Yong, Jianming

Abstract

It is difficult to accurately assess the overall global market for SME-related e-commerce. However, we do know that Australia has more than 1 million SMEs; they are vitally important to Australia's economic prosperity. Thus, in September 2001 the government announced a $6.5 million initiative to accelerate SMEs' adoption of e-commerce to facilitate online access to government purchasing within two years. Helping these SMEs efficiently build their e-commerce systems has become a high priority of Australia's government and IT/IS researchers. To find solutions to Australian SMEs' e-commerce concerns, we conducted research using Citysearch, an online business directory, in early 2002. We selected 10 cities/areas to research: Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Canberra, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Tasmania, and Townsville, and studied industry sectors that include many SMEs.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. School of Information Technology

Source

IT professional : technology solutions for the enterprise, Vol. 5, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 2003), pp. 21-24

Publication year

2003

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

ISSN

1520-9202

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2003.1235318

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