An Empirical Study of Internet Use in Saudian's Small and Mediums Enterprises

Abstract

Employing the Internet as a tool can help address some of the critical issues affecting SMEs in Kingdom of Saudia Arabia, such as increased global competition, increased consumer demand for quality, increased partnerships between large/intermediate and small businesses, rapidly changing market environment, growing need for immediate access to current business information from a variety of sources, The purpose of this study was to assess the current level of Internet usage as a business tool by SMEs that formed the basis for an earlier study, The small companies have experienced a variety of difficulties in their adoption of the Internet as a business tool, and there have been a variety of benefits realized by small companies. Lastly, they have experienced problems such as cost increases since their adoption of the Internet as a business tool.