عوامل مؤثر بر توسعۀ فناوري اطلاعات و تجارت الكترونيكي در شركت هاي كوچك و متوسط

Factors Impacting on Development of IT and E-Commerce in SMEs

Shifts in both the sense and direction of IT development coupled with shifts in global economy have caused small to medium enterprises (SMEs) to enjoy an increasing prominence in national economic development. In order to succeed within a competitive milieu, these companies must boost the quality of their products and management processes while reducing costs. Therefore it becomes imperative to deploy IT. Studies show that while SMEs could profit from IT and E-Commerce, but to reap its benefits and succeed in deploying this technology they need to secure . In other words, the success rate in SMEs is contingent based such realities have led to numerous stedies and research to identofy the factors impacting on IT deployment in SMEs the perent paper imitially explain the role of SMEs ineconomic development and would follow it up with the application of IT in these enterprises the cogent impact factors are categorized and presenled within the fram work of pettigrew and whipp change model