The role of small business clusters in prioritising barriers to e-commerce adoption: a study of Swedish regional SMEs

Despite government initiatives, studies show that SME still fail to realise the benefits of e-commerce adoption. This paper extends existing research by showing that the barriers to e-commerce adoption can be grouped according to two distinct factors: the difficulty of implementing e-commerce and the unsuitability of e-commerce to the business. The paper also shows that the relative importance of these two factors is affected by membership/non-membership of a small business cluster.