African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4193

Full Length Research Paper

The economic and logistic benefits of online business registration for Congolese immigrants in Cape Town

  Alain M. Momo1 and Wilfred I. Ukpere2*        
  1Faculty of Business, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. 2Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, Faculty of Management, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Email: [email protected].

  •  Accepted: 14 June 2011
  •  Published: 31 July 2011

Abstract

 

Computer has revolutionalised the ways businesses are conducted across the globe and brought about the business to business (B2B) e-commerce revolution, which accelerated the process of globalisation.  B2B e-commerce has been adopted in the Europe (EU), United States of America (USA), India, New Zealand and South Africa (SA) to enhance business registration and promotions. However, this development is not yet applicable in Congo-Brazzaville. However, owing to the nature of Congolese immigrants’ small micro and medium-sized enterprises (SMMEs) in Cape Town, online business registration is necessary to enable them to save in respect of supply chain management costs and contributions to the country’s economic reconstruction process. Hence, the Centre for Business and Administrative Procedures (CFBAP): Centre des Formalités Administratives des Entreprises (CFE), should consider the B2B e-commerce website as an important objective. At a national level, e-commerce website adoption at CFBAP will leverage the country’s standards of conducting business, as well as stimulate Congolese immigrant entrepreneurs in Cape Town to invest in Congo-Brazzaville.

 

Key words: E-commerce, centre des formalités administratives des entreprises(CFE), Congo-Brazzaville, World Bank, small micro and medium-sized enterprise(SMMEs), immigrants, centre for business and administrative procedures (CFBAP).