An Influential Analysis of the Impact of E-Commerce on Nigerian Small and Medium Scale Enterprises

ABSTRACT The paper assessed the role of e-commerce in Nigerian Small and medium scale enterprises, a case study of Lagos State. Purposive sampling was adopted while data were collected through questionnaire from 1000 respondents that were selected randomly through a stratified random sampling technique. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used in analyzed data. From the findings, it showed that e-payment Product such as Mobile banking ,Atm , Internet and others are the tools mostly used for e-commerce by SMEs. Also, it is evident that e-commerce application has great positive impacts on SMEs performance. This paper also found that if e-commerce is fully adopted, it will bring an increased in SMEs performance. It was recommended that seminars and conferences, mentor-mentee programs, awareness campaign and motivation and strategic partnership or alliance should be implemented to aid more adoption of e-commerce to boost the performance effectiveness of SMEs in Nigeria.