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Authors: Louis Raymond 1 and François Bergeron 2

Affiliations: 1 Institut de recherche sur les PME, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada ; 2 Faculté des sciences de l’administration, Université Laval, Canada

Keyword(s): Alignment, e-business, SME, strategy, performance.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: B2B, B2C and C2C ; B2C/B2B Considerations ; Business and Social Applications ; Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures ; e-Business ; Enterprise Information Systems ; Process Design and Organisational Issues in E-Commerce ; Society, e-Business and e-Government ; Software Agents and Internet Computing ; Web Information Systems and Technologies

Abstract: Facing pressures from an increasingly competitive business environment, manufacturing SMEs are called upon to implement strategies that are enabled and supported by information technologies and e-business applications. Based on the Internet and Web technologies, these include applications such as e-communication, e-commerce, e-business intelligence and e-collaboration. From a contingency theory perspective, and using survey data obtained from 107 Canadian manufacturing SMEs, this study examines the alignment of e-business development with business strategy, based on Miles and Snow’s strategic typology. The performance outcomes of this alignment in terms of growth, productivity and financial performance are also examined. Results indicate that the ideal e-business development profiles vary in the relation to the firms’ strategic orientation, whether it is of the Defender, Analyzer or Prospector type.

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Paper citation in several formats:
Raymond, L. and Bergeron, F. (2007). STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT OF E-BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - Performance Outcomes for Manufacturing SMEs. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS; ISBN 978-972-8865-91-7; ISSN 2184-4992, SciTePress, pages 78-83. DOI: 10.5220/0002402300780083

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title={STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT OF E-BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - Performance Outcomes for Manufacturing SMEs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS},
year={2007},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS
TI - STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT OF E-BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - Performance Outcomes for Manufacturing SMEs
SN - 978-972-8865-91-7
IS - 2184-4992
AU - Raymond, L.
AU - Bergeron, F.
PY - 2007
SP - 78
EP - 83
DO - 10.5220/0002402300780083
PB - SciTePress