Abstract
The rapid growth of electronic business has been evident since the very beginning of the last decade. Nevertheless, so far companies experience many problems related to the implementation of e-business. The majority of small and medium-sized compa-nies (SMEs) have neither the internal expertise nor financial resources to enable in-house development of e-business. Unfortunately, they often engage consultants without any clear idea of their intended e-business strategy and without due care as to effective engagement processes. This frequently leads to ineffective e-business development and a highly disaffected group of small entrepreneurs. This paper focuses on the analy-sis of the main problems faced by (SMEs) engaged in e-business and to show the sig-nificant gap between the intended strategies of SMEs and the actual e-business strat-egy implemented.
The questions addressed in the paper are:
1. Define the main problems and barriers in engaging in e-business faced......
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