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Title

The gap between rhetoric and reality: public reluctance to adopt e-commerce in Australia

Author(s)

Vigo, Kitty

Abstract

Like every OECD country, Australia is actively encouraging its citizens and business to adopt the advantages of e-commerce. However, while Australian Federal and State Governments are investing millions in encouraging e-commerce take-up research findings based on two projects designed to facilitate e-commerce take-up indicate that while there is a high level of acceptance of e-commerce in principle, there seems to be a high degree of reluctance to practice it. This paper looks at some of the obstacles to e-commerce take-up encountered in two projects which sought to encourage e-commerce take-up.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Lilydale Campus

Source

11th International Conference on Information Systems Development: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, 12-14 September 2002, Riga, Latvia, pp. 391-399

Publication year

2002

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Publisher URL

http://www.cs.rtu.lv/isd2002/abstract.asp?text=c27

Peer reviewed