Barriers to e-Procurement Adoption in Construction From the review of the existing literature, it was also revealed that although there are numerous studies on the barriers to e-Procurement/e- Commerce adoption by organizations in the different industries in the developing and developed countries of the world, there is a paucity of empirical literature on the barriers to the uptake of e-Procurement technologies in construction generally and the building industry in particular. In this section, attempt is made at identifying and reviewing the existing studies on the barriers to the uptake of e-Procurement in construction in countries such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, Nigeria, Turkey, the UK and South Africa. The studies indentified and reviewed in this paper are presented