Ahmed Altayyar, John Beaumont-Kerridge

(University of Bedfordshire, UK)

 

 

Abstract: This paper investigates the potential barriers to e-procurement adoption in Saudi Arabian SMEs. The study builds its theoretical foundation on Gunasekaran and Ngai’s (2009) model of e-procurement adoption in SMEs on the south-east coast of the USA, which it applies to the Saudi Arabian SMEs to determine their barriers to the adoption of e-procurement. Data was collected from a number of staff from four selected Saudi Arabian SMEs using both qualitative and quantitative tools. This study looks at a number of barriers and analyses their relative importance using hierarchical analytic process.

 

 

Key words: e-commerce; e-procurement adoption; barriers; SMEs

 

JEL codes: M