The enigma of evaluation: Benefits, costs and risks of IT in Australian small-medium-sized enterprises

Information and Management

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 947-964

  Love, Peter E D ^a   Irani, Zahir ^b   Standing, Craig ^a   Lin, Chad ^a   Burn, Janice M ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Australia; Benchmarking; IT evaluation; SMEs

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COSTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AUSTRALIA; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMALL TO MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES (SME);

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 23844508187     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2004.10.004     Document Type: Article

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