Factors Influencing the Usage of E-Business to Improve SME Performance

This article presents a theoretical framework for investigating factors influencing e-commerce implementation among SMEs to enhance their performance, and how these factors-percieved ease of use, perceived usefulness, and perceived privacy-could be used for this purpose. Furthermore, this article examined these factors' influence on e-commerce adoption based on three theories, "resourcebased view, unified theory of acceptance and use of technology theories." The data was obtained from a novel questionnaire, which was distributed copies to owners and managers of two hundred and five (205) SMEs in Oyo State, Nigeria. PLS-SEM for analysing empirical data derived. It was found that SMEs' e-commerce adoption to enhance their performance is highly impacted by perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. On the other hand, perceived privacy is not significantly linked to e-commerce use. The findings were then used to construct a conceptual framework for e-commerce adoption among SMEs.