Faced with the pressures of a business environment more competitive, small and medium-sized enterprises in manufacturing are expected to implement business strategies facilitated and supported by information technologies and applications electronic business. These include technologies based on Internet applications in communication, commerce, intelligence and strategic collaboration. From a theoretical perspective of contingency, and from survey data from 86 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), this study examines the alignment of e-business growth of SMEs with their business strategy, and this, according to the typology of Miles and Snow. The consequences of this alignment for growth, productivity and monetary performance of these companies are also studied. The results designate that the perfect outlines of e-business applications depend on the business strategy.
Business Alignment, E-Business, Growth, SME
