Empowerment of SME websites—Development of a web-empowerment scale and preliminary evidence |
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Authors: | Rudolf R Sinkovics Elfriede Penz |
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Institution: | 1. Manchester Business School (East), The University of Manchester, P.O. Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD, United Kingdom 2. Wirtschaftsuniversit?t Wien, Austria, Augasse 2-6, A-1090, Wien, Vienna, Austria
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Abstract: | The emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web has been argued to fundamentally reshape economic conditions and business
practices of firms. It is seen as a promoter of rapid internationalisation of companies, particularly small and medium enterprises.
In the aftermath of the burst of the electronic-bubble business practitioners and academics look with scrutiny on successful
web-strategies, relevant dimensions of online-success and try to identify viable website practices which enable long-term
rewards. The literature offers a rather patchy pattern for successful web-strategies and consumer perspectives on what is
expected from websites is hardly available. Within this paper, we introduce the dimension “web-empowerment”. This is a multidimensional
construct comprising of consumer views on various dimensions of relevant and successful websites. The web-empowerment scale
is based on a large sample from Austria, and developed according to scale development procedures. The relevance of this construct
and practical issues in the context of a cross-country sample of SME’s is empirically examined. The paper concludes by offering
implications for SME practitioners and for research. |
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Keywords: | Internet Website Assessment International marketing SME |
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