While questionnaire surveys allow researchers to collect exten-
sive information on various aspects of e-business, there are no strict rules on how they should be designed as well as what survey questions should be asked. As there are 34 questions in the survey seeking companies’ views on critical factors in making the decision to adopt e-business, the inclusion of all the questions’ feedback in regression analysis would render it ineffective due to the multicollinearity problem caused by the correlations between variables as well as the loss of the degrees of freedom. To overcome the above issues, the data analysis is carried out in two phases