Survey of the E-Business Opportunities in Macedonia
Date Issued
2003
Author(s)
Stanoeva-Slabeva, Katarina
Kon-Popovska, Margita
Abstract
According to many experts’ forecasts, electronic commerce will have increasingly bigger influence on the economic growth on of each country. This is especially true for the smaller countries, like Macedonia, helping them to overcome the
regional barriers and to open themselves to the word businesses. In order to identify
and analyze the potentials of the Macedonian companies towards using the Internet
and New media in their day-to-day business, we have performed a survey among the
Macedonian companies. The survey itself has been developed in collaboration with
the St. Galen University in Switzerland, in the framework of the project “The Potential of B-B Platforms for the Macedonian industry –Technical and Economic Aspects”.
The aim of the survey is to identify the potentials enabled by e-Business, but also to
provide us with the necessary information for developing a simple guide on the new
technologies that would help the companies to adopt them as seamlessly as possible.
The questionnaire was developed in three models: form the companies using Internet,
for the ones not using Internet and for the Internet service providers. The accent was
stronger on the companies that already using some basic Internet services as they are
identified as the early adopters of the e-Business technologies. The survey included
questions concerning general company info, computer equipment, basic and advanced
Internet usage. Technologies like intranets and extranets, e-commerce, eprocurements, supply chain management and electronic data interchange are also included. Equally important are the data gained from the ISPs, since they provide the
foundation for the advanced business usage of the Internet. The results of the survey
are processed using standard statistical techniques and some conclusions are made out
of them.
regional barriers and to open themselves to the word businesses. In order to identify
and analyze the potentials of the Macedonian companies towards using the Internet
and New media in their day-to-day business, we have performed a survey among the
Macedonian companies. The survey itself has been developed in collaboration with
the St. Galen University in Switzerland, in the framework of the project “The Potential of B-B Platforms for the Macedonian industry –Technical and Economic Aspects”.
The aim of the survey is to identify the potentials enabled by e-Business, but also to
provide us with the necessary information for developing a simple guide on the new
technologies that would help the companies to adopt them as seamlessly as possible.
The questionnaire was developed in three models: form the companies using Internet,
for the ones not using Internet and for the Internet service providers. The accent was
stronger on the companies that already using some basic Internet services as they are
identified as the early adopters of the e-Business technologies. The survey included
questions concerning general company info, computer equipment, basic and advanced
Internet usage. Technologies like intranets and extranets, e-commerce, eprocurements, supply chain management and electronic data interchange are also included. Equally important are the data gained from the ISPs, since they provide the
foundation for the advanced business usage of the Internet. The results of the survey
are processed using standard statistical techniques and some conclusions are made out
of them.
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