%0 Journal Article
%T Adoption of Electronic Supply Chain Management and E-Commerce by Small and Medium Enterprises and Their Performance: A Survey of SMEs in Pakistan
%A Shahzad Ahmad Khan
%A Yan Liang
%A Sumaira Shahzad
%J American Journal of Industrial and Business Management
%P 433-441
%@ 2164-5175
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ajibm.2014.49051
%X Adoption of E-Commerce and Electronic Supply
Chain Management (E-SCM) by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has developed a
tremendous performance in business process. SMEs in Pakistan are tryin<span style=\"line-height:2;font-family:Verdana;\"></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;line-height:2;\">g to enhance
their competences by adopting a new technology to enter into the global market.
The survey was aimed to investigate the current status and future direction of the
adoption and benefits of E-Commerce and E-SCM by small and medium enterprises in
Pakistan. A mailed questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data from 210 SMEs
as samples located in Karachi, Gujranwala and Faisalabad, Pakistan. The results
suggest that E-Commerce and E-SCM adoption has a significant, positive influence
on SMEs, who have significantly higher average sales growth rate, on-time order
management and delivery process than non-adopters. The findings of this study can
be useful for SMEs in general as a means of understanding how E-Commerce and E-SCM
adoption positively affects the firm¡¯s performance.
%K E-Commerce
%K Small and Medium Enterprises
%K E-Supply Chain Management
%K Pakistan
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=49463