E-Business maturity and information technology in Portuguese SMEs

• Author(s): Gonçalves, Ramiro ; Santos, Sónia Sousa ; Morais, Elisabete Paulo
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/2704
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): E-Business maturity; Information technology; SMEs
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The latest technological advances made over recent times led to a profound market change, characterized by increased competition. In order to be competitive, organizations have been forced to adapt themselves to this new reality, seeking innovative solutions permitting them to achieve lower costs, greater productivity and differentiation from competition. This work focuses the e-business maturity stages of Portuguese small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Our goal is to identify in which e-business maturity stage they are and explore the relationship between their e-business maturity and the technology they use. forced to adapt themselves to this new reality, seeking innovative solutions permitting them to achieve lower costs, greater productivity and differentiation from competition. This work focuses the e-business maturity stages of Portuguese small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Our goal is to identify in which e-business maturity stage they are and explore the relationship between their e-business maturity and the technology they use.