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In this study, nonlinear Logit and probit models are used to analyse the important factors that impact on the tendency of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to use electronic commerce in one of the industrial parks in Kermanshah province of Iran. Furthermore, it identifies the major barriers of e-commerce adoption in these SMEs. The Sample of the study includes 35 SMEs in this province. The results of probit and Logit models suggest that a lower level of the internet service costs, motivates firms to adopt e-commerce. In addition, if the government provides free e-commerce facilities for SMEs, it can encourage SMEs to adopt e-commerce. Furthermore, the results show that due to uncertainty in the e-commerce, producing high-quality products and traditional exports cannot raise the tendency of sample firms to adopt e-commerce.
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See footnote 2.
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Karmanshah province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran in year 2010 which is located in the west of Iran. This province is neighbor of Iraq from west.
For example, abnormality distribution of U i ’s, heteroscedasticity of U i s and low values of R 2. Note that in this models the condition E(Y i |X i ) should be between zero and one. For more information see Gujarati [24] Basic Econometrics.
The address of this website is as http://www.sme.ir/?lang=en.
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Solaymani, S., Sohaili, K. & Yazdinejad, E.A. Adoption and use of e-commerce in SMEs. Electron Commer Res 12, 249–263 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-012-9096-6
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