Critical factors classification for firm adoption of e-commerce

The exponential explosion of Internet usage as a business environment (e-commerce) is dramatically changing the way businesses and individuals do business. Recently, the move of e-commerce to the forefront of information technology priorities has resulted in firms reinventing themselves. This leads to how critical it is to understand the factors that encourage/deter e-commerce adoption by businesses. This study attempts to explore business adoption of e-commerce with the objective of categorization and classification of the published critical success/failure factors of e-commerce adoption. The classification and the related literature review offer implications for e-commerce adopters and for future researcher.