The business value of e-government for small firms

International Journal of Service Industry Management

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 385-407

  Thompson, Debora Viana ^a   Rust, Roland T ^a   Rhoda, Jeffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Government; Government agencies; Information services; Small enterprises; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 23444448771     PISSN: 09564233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09564230510614022     Document Type: Article

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