Understanding the key drivers of emarketplace uptake among micro and small-sized businesses (MSBS) in an emerging economy

Osakwe, Christian Nedu; Chovancová, Miloslava; Agu, Monica N.

dc.title	Understanding the key drivers of emarketplace uptake among micro and small-sized businesses (MSBS) in an emerging economy	en
dc.contributor.author	Osakwe, Christian Nedu
dc.contributor.author	Chovancová, Miloslava
dc.contributor.author	Agu, Monica N.
dc.relation.ispartof	Transformations in Business and Economics
dc.identifier.issn	1648-4460 Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.date.issued	2016
utb.relation.volume	15
utb.relation.issue	3
dc.citation.spage	239
dc.citation.epage	258
dc.type	article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Vilnius University
dc.relation.uri	http://www.transformations.knf.vu.lt/39/article/unde
dc.subject	eMarketplace	en
dc.subject	emerging economy	en
dc.subject	key drivers	en
dc.subject	MSBs	en
dc.subject	Nigeria	en
dc.subject	Sub-Saharan Africa	en
dc.description.abstract	So far, very little empirical research has been done on the uptake of eMarketplace among micro and small-sized businesses (MSBs) in emerging economies and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) included. In a bid to address the research gap, the present study focuses its investigation on the key drivers of eMarketplace uptake within the context of SSA. Our research position is that since MSBs are widely perceived as the future of emerging economies, it has now become foundational for the aspiring MSB to rapidly invest in the digitally-enabled virtual marketplace since it offers a great marketing opportunity for the firm. A battery of quantitative techniques yielded four key drivers of eMarketplace uptake among MSBs in the study area. The current study has offered some insight on how best to possibly improve the uptake of eMarketplace by MSBs particularly in the SSA context. Further to this, the paper contributes to the technology-organisation-environment (TOE) framework for information system adoption in the context of relatively small-sized companies.	en
utb.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1006943
utb.identifier.obdid	43876109
utb.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-85010715561
utb.identifier.wok	000391161100015
utb.source	j-scopus
dc.date.accessioned	2017-07-13T14:50:21Z
dc.date.available	2017-07-13T14:50:21Z
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Osakwe, Christian Nedu
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Chovancová, Miloslava
utb.fulltext.affiliation	1 Christian Nedu Osakwe Faculty of Management and Economics Tomas Bata University Namesti T.G.M 5555 760 01 Zlin Czech Republic E-mail: osakwe@fame.utb.cz 2 Miloslava Chovancova Faculty of Management and Economics Tomas Bata University Namesti T.G.M 5555 760 01 Zlin Czech Republic E-mail: chovancova@fame.utb.cz 3 Monica N. Agu Department of Computer Science University of Nigeria Nsukka Road Nsukka 410001 Nigeria E-mail: monica.agu@unn.edu.ng
utb.fulltext.dates	Received: October, 2014 1 st Revision: June, 2015 2 nd Revision: November, 2015 Accepted: September, 2016
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utb.fulltext.sponsorship	The authors wish to express their deep gratitude to all the 162 enterprises that participated in the survey. Without the candid responses of these enterprises, our research would have been a futile exercise. We are also indebted to the field assistants who helped us tremendously in administering the questionnaire to our target respondents. We equally wish to declare that this research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sector.
utb.wos.affiliation	[Osakwe, Christian Nedu; Chovancova, Miloslava] Tomas Bata Univ Namesti, Fac Econ & Management, TGM 5555, Zlin 76001, Czech Republic; [Agu, Monica N.] Univ Nigeria, Dept Comp Sci, Nsukka Rd, Nsukka 410001, Nigeria