The Mobile Internet and Small Business: An Exploratory Study of Needs, Uses and Adoption with Full-Adopters of Technology

Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 205-220

  Van Akkeren, Jeanette ^a   Harker, Debra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption; Ecommerce; Internet; Mobile data technologies; SME

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; TECHNOLOGY;

MOBILE DATA TECHNOLOGIES (MDT);

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 0043265152     PISSN: 1443458X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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