Main motives for electronic purchases and sales, 2001

In the ‘automatisation survey 2001-2003’, companies are asked about their motives to do e-commerce. For the electronic sales are based on eight motives. For the electronic purchasing is about five motives. The companies have been asked to indicate how important these motives were for the (further) development of e-commerce activities: the in- and sell over the Internet or any other electronic network. Only the motives considered by the companies to be of great importance, are included in the results. The motives whose importance as ‘average’, ‘small’ or ‘not applicable’ are not recorded. The results are shown as percentages where the numerator exists from the number of companies with the relevant motive of “great importance” consider and denominator the number of companies selling to electronics or e-purchase. Data available for the year 2001.