THE SCOPE AND INTENSITY OF DERIVED BENEFITS FROM E-COMMERCE PENETRATION IN SMES

Louis-A. Lefebvre, Elie Elia, Élisabeth Lefebvre, Onno Omta

2004

Abstract

This paper attempts to (i) to assess the relative importance of benefits related to the gradual unfolding of business-to-business e-commerce (B-2-B e-commerce) penetration among manufacturing SMEs and (ii) to demonstrate that the scope and intensity of these benefits increase in the later stages of e-commerce penetration as organizational learning gradually takes place. Empirical evidence strongly suggests that these benefits are cumulative and that organizational learning allows SMEs to reap these benefits.

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Lefebvre L., Elia E., Lefebvre É. and Omta O. (2004). THE SCOPE AND INTENSITY OF DERIVED BENEFITS FROM E-COMMERCE PENETRATION IN SMES . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 55-61. DOI: 10.5220/0002637000550061


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Louis-A. Lefebvre and Elie Elia and Élisabeth Lefebvre and Onno Omta},
title={THE SCOPE AND INTENSITY OF DERIVED BENEFITS FROM E-COMMERCE PENETRATION IN SMES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={55-61},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002637000550061},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - THE SCOPE AND INTENSITY OF DERIVED BENEFITS FROM E-COMMERCE PENETRATION IN SMES
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Lefebvre L.
AU - Elia E.
AU - Lefebvre É.
AU - Omta O.
PY - 2004
SP - 55
EP - 61
DO - 10.5220/0002637000550061