ICT, United States, China, Brazil, E-Commerce, Japan, Denmark, France, Germany, Investment & Investment Climate, Mexico, Singapore, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, North America, Taiwan, Province of China

This report by Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason Dedrick and Debora Dunkle of the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations at the University of California, Irvine -published in August, 2002 - is the second in a series of reports from its recently completed Global E-Commerce Survey. The report compares US experience with that in other nations in the study: Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan. Some of the finding supported in the paper are that: U.S. companies are not as global as the global sample of firms; "The U.S. is not far ahead in using e-commerce technologies"; "Business drivers for Internet use are similar for U.S. and global sample firms, but global sample firms are more affected by government drivers"; "U.S. firms perceive fewer difficulties and barriers to doing business on the Internet"; "Total e-commerce sales are small, but slightly higher for U.S. firms"; and "U.S. firms report somewhat greater impacts from doing business on-line in terms of selling and customer support, while global sample firms enjoy greater impacts on costs and efficiency."

Link: http://crito.uci.edu/publications/pdf/GIT/GEC/USsnapshot.pdf
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