Investigating the Barriers of Electronic Bussiness Development (Case Study: In Zanjan Province Enterprises)

Subject Areas : Futurology

A. Memarnejad ¹ , J. Hajialiakbari ²

1 - نویسنده مسئول یا طرف مکاتبه
2 - ندارد

Received: 2009-01-04 Accepted : 2009-02-17 Published : 2010-03-21

Keywords: e-business, E-Commerce, Barriers, Enterprise, E-commerce infrastructure,

Abstract :

Nowadays the application of the e-commerce solutions for the enterprises is an important andunavoidable note, and if those enterprises do not consider it this will tend to declining in beneficiaryand omitting them of contest consequently, one of the most important and useful strategy measures ofenterprises is planning concerned with the application of these solutions, also detecting the barriers totheir application and introducing some suggestions for deleting them.The purpose of this study is detect and investigate the barriers to electronic business development inZanjan enterprises, prioritizing the detected barriers and providing and providing research suggestionsfor removing them.In this study, the mentioned barriers were analyzed in terms of six fallowing categories as: cultural,infrastructure, legal, managing, humanity and economic ones. These categories were also subdividedand categorized in to 36 secondary factors.As the whole statistic population has been studied, so the descriptive statistic was used for studyingthe research questions and its advantage was considered as a practical research approach.The tool for data collecting was questionnaire which given to 170 enterprises for collecting differentideas and rating (The questionnaire verified in terms of validity and reliability).The results show that the priorities given to the main barriers are as follow respectively: legal, cultural,managing, infrastructure related humanity and economic barriers.