Table of Contents

Chapter One Nature and Background of the Study.........

1.0 Introduction....1
1.1 Background & Statement of Problem.2
1.2 Rationale for the Study...3
1.3 Research questions and Hypotheses...4
1.4 Assumptions, limitations and Delimitations...5
1.5 Definitions of Terms...6
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.0 Introduction.8
2.1 The History of Electronic Commerce.9
2.2 Types of E-commerce10
2.3 E-commerce Advantages...10
2.4 The Role of E-commerce within Australia.11
2.5 E-commerce and Small Medium Enterprises.11
2.6 Efficiency of E-commerce system..12
2.7 Usage of Ecommerce system..13
Chapter Three Methodology..
3.0 Introduction....14
3.1 Research design used..14
3.2 How the data were collected...15
3.3 Definition of population and Sampling method.19
3.3.1 Sample size for the research.20
3.3.2 Questionnaires and Test development..22
3.4 Validity and Reliability..24
3.4.1 Pre-test and revise Questionnaire.24
3.4.2 Quantitative and qualitative approach..24
Chapter Four Analysis of Data.
4.1 Introduction27
4.2 Descriptive statistical analysis...27
4.3 Purpose of e-commerce adoption...29
4.4 Factor Analysis...30
4.5 Hypothesis tested ...31
Chapter Five Discussion, Conclusions and Recommendations.
5.0 Introduction..34
5.1 Conclusions34
5.2 Recommendations..35
5.3 Limitations.36
5.4 Suggestion for future research37
Reference...39
Appendices46