| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 產業經濟研究所 === 96 === The objective of this paper is to analyse the determining factors of B2B e-commerce adoption to the manufacturing firms. The empirical research uses firm-level data from the Industry, Commerce and Service Census in the year 2001. The empirical results which are based on Probit Model, Ordered Probit Model, and Tobit Model indicate that firm-specific factors are essential determainants of e-commerce adoption and extent. The firm age, firm size, RD intensive, human capital, and capital to labor ratio（K/L）are highly significant determinants. As to the urbanization, the more remote the firm is, the more e-commerce demand it needs. In addition, industry-specific factors shows different phenomenon except for the EC-intensity in the same market. The firms in high-tech industry are highly connected with their supplier, and the others in non high-tech industry are relative highly connected with their consumers. Therefore the upper index and downstream index have different influence on firms of separate industries.
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