Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: Fundamental to the development of new customer value offerings via web-based commerce is a small firm's ability to strategically acquire and exploit knowledge.The focus of this paper is the empirical testing of a normative web-based commerce adoption model developed from a review of the extant literature related to electronic marketing, the Internet and the diffusion of new innovations.A preliminary test of the model's theoretical contentions lent support to its overall focus, but found that the firm's existing learning capabilities were diminished during the adoption of webbased commerce.Consequently, sub-optimal adoption outcomes were associated with insufficient knowledge development.
Authors: Colin Jones, Rob Hecker, Peter Holland
Institutions: University of Tasmania, Monash University
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1579152426