NDLI: The Adoption of E-Commerce by Overseas Sindhis: An Empirical Study

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Siyal, M.Y. Chowdhry, B.S. Rajput, A.Q.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of EEE, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore (Siyal, M.Y.)
Abstract	Sindh along the lower delta of Indus River is one of the world's most ancient civilizations. Over the last six decades, people of Sindh have gone all over the world and have been successful in all fields of life. In order to maintain Sindhi environment in their homes, they have to acquire various things related to Sindh from various countries. In the past, it was a quite difficult task however, with e-commerce this task can be done with a click of button on the computer. Thus, the purpose of this study is to find out how Sindhis living abroad have adopted e-commerce and what are the factors that are influencing the adoption of this technology? For this purpose a survey was conducted all over the world. The results indicate that income level; education level and exposure to the Internet were significant predictors in explaining the rate of adoption of e-commerce by overseas Sindhis. However, contrary to general beliefs, this study showed that the gender and the age are not important factors for the adoption of e-commerce by overseas Sindhis. This could be due to the fact that regardless of their gender and age, Sindhis living abroad are eager to use e-commerce to acquire Sindhi items so that they can maintain Sindhi type homes abroad and preserve their culture and heritage
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	5
File Size	173924
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1424406730
DOI	10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2006.301912
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-11-19
Publisher Place	United Arab Emirates
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Demography Natural languages Africa Maintenance engineering Cities and towns Rivers Internet Computer science education Electronic commerce Australia
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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