Title: Impact of functionalities on e-commerce in supply chain in India

Authors: Vijaykumar Rambhau Salkute

Addresses: National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, #3059, Sector 21-D, Chandigarh 160 021 (U.T.), India

Abstract: The objective of this exploratory study pertains to system architecture of e-commerce development model. It understands the determinants of development of e-commerce in SCM within Indian industry. The research was initiated to study the findings and focused on the impact of organisational and social functionalities in the field of e-commerce development. Data collected from small and big enterprises were analysed with simple regression analysis. The results confirmed the explanatory power of e-commerce functionalities and organisation functionalities on e-commerce development, as in other innovation adoption. The study showed that one of the factors of supply chain functionalities, that is, SCM coordination level was significantly related to the e-commerce development level. The main findings include: (1) supply chain functionalities as a new factor group is proved to have significant power in explaining e-commerce development level among Indian companies and (2) the extent of e-commerce development varies across business types.

Keywords: electronic commerce; SCM; supply chain management; innovation adoption; system architecture; India; organisational functionalities; social functionalities; e-commerce; supply chain coordination.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2010.030772

International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 2010 Vol.4 No.2, pp.149 - 168

Published online: 05 Jan 2010 *

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