Measuring the e-business activities of SME's in Yemen

Ahmed Abdullah; Brychan Thomas; Stuart Metcalfe

Measuring the e-business activities of SME's in Yemen

Ahmed Abdullah, Brychan Thomas, Stuart Metcalfe

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Abstract

This paper aims to measure the e-business adoption activities in Yemeni SMEs as well as investigate the benefit and barriers of using e-business in SMEs in developing countries such as Yemen.

The paper employed a mixed method (quantitative and qualitative) case approach. The paper integrated different methods in order to facilitate a deep understanding of the adoption level of e-business in SMEsin. Firstly, semi-structured interviews conducted with SMEs’ managers. Secondly, a survey questionnaire used to generalise and verify the findings from stage 1 to the SEMs population.

About (23.5%) of SMEs have employees between 1-9 and (76.5%) of SMEs have employees between 10 and 49, therefore the majority of them were medium firms. In addition, about 51% of the SMEs have been established for 10 years and below, and 49% were above10 years.

The results indicate that the Yemeni SMEs are at the early stages of e-business adoption. It also indicates factors that deter Yemeni SMEs from the adoption of E-business.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Journal	Asia Pacific Journal of Advanced Business and Social Studies
Volume	2
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2016

Keywords

e-Business
e-commerce
Measurement Evolution Model
SMEs
small and medium sized enterprises
Yemen

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