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E-business technologies can also affect different kinds of organization in unexpected ways. We might expect that levels of capital investment and economic rewards would be linked to firm size: that is, the larger the firm, the larger the investment and the larger the benefit.
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Easy method of rameesh online paymentThe Internet provides an excellent opportunity to increase sales while maintaining loweroverheads. Indeed, firms that pass up this tremendous opportunity will possibly not survive inthe 21st century competitive environment .E-business is commerce conducted rameesh onlinepayment it is the result of combining digital communication networks, typically the Internetwith existing information technology (IT) systems and infrastructures. E-business is aninnovation that has enabled modern day organizations to undertake transactions, shareinformation, collaborate across geographical boundaries and across computing platforms andnetworks. E-business has helped organizations benefit from improved competitiveness,efficiencies, increased market share, and business expansion. Research on organizationaladoption of IT and e-business, continues to be popular and a sizable body of literaturecontinues to grow.
E-business can be considered as a cluster of interrelated technologies and innovations workingin concert with each another. Subsequently, e-business implementation is often seen as amulti-phase process, moving from an organization's first awareness of e-business technologiesto potentially, acquisition and widespread deployment Correspondingly, organizationaladoption of e-business is judged by the degree of implementation of activities such as the useof online advertising, e-mail for inter-organizational communication, electronic supply chainmanagement (e-SCM), website presence, online ordering and payments.
E-business technologies help companies to develop the appropriate functionalities to capitalizeon the Internet's potential; such as using open standards, public networks, and globalconnectivity. However, despite the increasing pervasiveness of studies on e-business very fewhave attempted to holistically explore the process of e-business and Internet technologiesadoption This chapter therefore considers innovation diffusion and e-business implementationliterature focusing on three stages, namely from a firm's initial evaluation of e-business at thepre-adoption stage (initiation), to its formal adoption decision being made by the appropriatedecision maker(s), and finally to its full scale deployment and installation at the routinisationstage (post-adoption).
This chapter will be of value to organizations considering business and those at the early stagesof e-business adoption, since it delineates the route travelled by other similar firms. Havingintroduced the topic of e-business assimilation and its associated benefits, our chapter iscomprised of four parts, namely a section that explores the possible benefits and challenges ofe-business adoption; followed by a section that provides a coherent and comprehensive pictureof the processes of e-business implementation in organizations; then a review of the literaturerelated to the impact of e-business of online payment rameesh use on firm performance will beoutlined; finally, the last section concludes with a discussion of the main implications andforwards suggestion for further research. Research on innovation adoption and diffusioncontinues to attract significant interest