Small and medium sized enterprises: no longer just coping with the supply chain

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 4-10

  Sommer, Rainer A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic data interchange (EDI); extensible markup language (XML); private exchange; public exchange; SME

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645137301     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2003.003509     Document Type: Article

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