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Barriers of website adoption for South African beef cattle breeder SMMEs
Dissertation (MBA (Business Administration))--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/30632 Barriers of website adoption for South African beef cattle breeder SMMEs ichelp@gibs.co.za Ms J Sandrock Meissner, David Erasmus Stephanus UCTD Barriers Smme Beef cattle breeders Website adoption Dissertation (MBA (Business Administration))--University of Pretoria, 2012. The benefits for SMMEs of adopting a website are well known and a lot of research has been done in various industries. However no such study has been done to provide insight into the preceived benefits and barries of website adoption for beef cattle breeder SMMEs in South Africa.The research methodology involved a quantitative design of a descriptive type as there is a depth of knowledge already available. A non-experimental survey design was used, which consisted of an electronic, self-administered survey. The survey served as the research method using a combination of the benefits and barriers identified by Walczuch et al (2000) and Cloete (2003). The sample size for the research consisted of 1261 registered beef cattle breeders from varies breeder societies which have valid email addresses.The study primarily outlines the proportion of website adoption and secondly describes the perceived barries and benefits of website adoption by beef cattle breeder SMMEs in the survey. The results indicate that close to 70 percent of the cattle breeders in the survey have not adopted a website. Those SMMEs that have adopted a website perceive marketing and advertising as the primary benefit and the cattle breeders’s primary perceived barrier of website adoption is unfamiliar with or the lack of knowledge regarding websites. This finding further indicates a definite difference between industries, compared to previous studies done by by Walczuch et al (2000) and Cloete (2003). Gordon Institute of Business Science MBA (Business Administration) restricted 2013-09-09T07:20:16Z 2013-04-30 2013-09-09T07:20:16Z 2013-04-25 2012-04-30 2013-02-23 Dissertation Meissner, DES 2012, Barriers of website adoption for South African beef cattle breeder SMMEs, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232013-154119/ > F13/4/217/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30632 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232013-154119/ en © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Barriers Smme Beef cattle breeders Website adoption Barriers of website adoption for South African beef cattle breeder SMMEs |
| title | Barriers of website adoption for South African beef cattle breeder SMMEs |
| title_full | Barriers of website adoption for South African beef cattle breeder SMMEs |
| title_fullStr | Barriers of website adoption for South African beef cattle breeder SMMEs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Barriers of website adoption for South African beef cattle breeder SMMEs |
| title_short | Barriers of website adoption for South African beef cattle breeder SMMEs |
| title_sort | barriers of website adoption for south african beef cattle breeder smmes |
| topic | UCTD Barriers Smme Beef cattle breeders Website adoption |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30632 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232013-154119/ |