E-Business Adoption by SMEs - Prerequisites and Attitudes of SMEs in a Swedish Network

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 211-223

  Ihlström, Carina ^a   Nilsson, Malin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Action research; Competence development; e business; e commerce; Implementation; SME; Transformation process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042880931     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10919392.2003.9681161     Document Type: Article

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