Study On Electronic Business Issues Of Small And Medium-sized Enterprises

As important components of China's national economy, Small and medium-sized enterprises play an important role in China's economic life. SMES are always in disadvantageous state in the market competition because of their own condition. Appearance of Electronic Business is a Gospel for the SMES. Electronic Business changes the traditional operational process of SMES. Size is not a great gulf fixed between big enterprises and SMES. On the coming of the informational age and globalization, SMES must adopt Electronic Business to rebuild the traditional operational process of them to face the drastic market competition.With a view to SMES, this paper demonstrates the necessity and probability of the Electronic Business use in SMES in detail. This paper analyses the importance of Electronic Business for SMES and put forward proper Electronic Business strategy suited for China's SMES.The thesis is composed of such chapters as follows:(1) SMES and Electronic Business. The concept of SMES, status quo and important effect are introduced in this chapter. The concept, type and development of Electronic Business and status quo use and research trend of Electronic Business are also introduced in this chapter. On this basis the author bring forward his comprehension over Electronic Business.(2) The chapter analyses the necessity of Electronic Business use among SMES. After detailed analysis and demonstration, the paper thinks the motives that SMES use Electronic Business are as follows: reduce transaction cost, shrink the gap between SMES and big enterprises, face market competition environment at leisure after China joins WTO.(3) The chapter analyses the possibility of Electronic Business use among SMES. The chapter mainly analyses technical basis and social basis of Electronic Business. The advancement of computer, Internet and database is analyzed in this chapter in Electronic Business technical basis. The development and status quo of Internet is analyzed in Electronic Business social basis.(4) Electronic Business has important effect on SMES. Electronic Business can drive SMES to launch Business Processing Reengineering, boost SMES to improve the informational level and help SMES to face sudden affairs.(5) The author uses SWOT to analyze for Electronic Business use among SMES and makes strategic choice. The strength and weakness of SMES and opportunity and threat that environment brings forward are analyzed in detail in this chapter. At last, the author brings paying equal attention to tradition business and Electronic Business strategy and delaminating and progressing strategy.(6) Some cases of the Electronic Business use among SMES are analyzed in this chapter.The paper use researching method integrating theory research with cases analysis to demonstrate the necessity and possibility of Electronic Business use among SMES.There are two innovations in this paper. One of the innovations is analysis of the effect of Electronic Business on transaction cost of SMES. The author draws a conclusion that SMES should persist in paying equal attention to both traditional business and Electronic Business strategy.The deficiency of this paper is that the author doesn't use quantitive method in analyzing the effect of Electronic Business use on SMES. This is the problem we should pay attention in future research. There hasn't been a uniform concept of Electronic Business and different research agency and organization has different statistical criterion. As a result it is difficult to quote data of Electronic Business.