This article employs a holistic overview of the existing specialist literature in an attempt to define, clarify and discriminate between the important aspects of the ongoing electronic revolution (ER). Based upon a critical review of empirically rigorous publications, it aims to identify and...

Purpose – To develop a basic model of e‐commerce adoption barriers to small businesses located in regional areas of developed countries. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical survey of 477 small businesses in Sweden and Australia about e‐commerce adoption and implementation. The...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to understand why some New Zealand firms in the professional services industries have been slow to embrace e‐business technologies. Design/methodology/approach – The authors employ a postal survey approach and involve a sample of 500 professional service...

Purpose – Adoption and effective use of e‐commerce remains low among small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) despite substantial investments. This paper aims to analyse the e‐commerce adoption paths of SMEs to identify a specific group that would benefit the most from e‐commerce...

Purpose – Government is promoting broadband for all, and specifically, is advocating business up‐take of broadband that affords high‐speed internet activity, to foster global competitiveness. Urban areas have economies of scale and the effect on price of concentration of demand. Rural...

Purpose – This study aims to compare the effectiveness of third‐party seals with self‐reported privacy policy statements with regard to the willingness of potential e‐commerce customers to provide web sites with various types of personal information. Design/methodology/approach – A...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use a blended learning environment to introduce principals in small businesses to the benefits of electronic commerce, while avoiding many of the barriers identified in recent research. Design/ methodology/approach – The paper reports results from...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the way home‐based internet businesses (HBIBs) are operated and the reasons for which they are started enable HBIBs to bring about variety, and to argue that this variety has a broader impact on the industry and the economy....

Purpose – This study aims to examine the relationship among three main constructs of financial status, e‐commerce components, and Hispanic small businesses' (HSBs') perceptions regarding the contracting process of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as they pertain to HSBs and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore small business e‐commerce development and usage of the emerging ICT‐infrastructure for e‐commerce in Sweden. For more than a decade firms in countries with appropriate infrastructures in place have generally been able to...