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E-Commerce has become an important tool in handling different types of business activities emerging from the convergence of several information technologies and business practices. Although E-Commerce has been seen to be an effective and efficient way of doing business, the degree/extend of adoption is still not as extensive and with some reservations amongst both users and non-users. The paper focuses on the analysis of primary data collected via questionnaire on adoption of E-Commerce applications and its constraints. As expected, the results showed that e-mail was the most widely adopted E-Commerce application mainly due to a minimal cost involved in the implementation. The results also revealed that about 27% of the respondents did not adopt any kind of E-Commerce applications and nearly 75% of them can be considered as low users (i.e. utilizing less than five applications). Security has been indicated by many to be the top main reason for not adopting E-Commerce.
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Sulaiman, A., Jani, R., Bahri, S. (2001). The Development of E-Commerce in Malaysia. In: Schmid, B., Stanoevska-Slabeva, K., Tschammer, V. (eds) Towards the E-Society. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 74. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47009-8_24
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