Key dimensions of inhibitors for the deployment of web-based business-to-business electronic commerce

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 395-411

  Teo, Thompson S H ^a   Ranganathan, C ^b   Dhaliwal, Jasbir ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Business to business e commerce; Deployment; Inhibitors; Problems; Web

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SURVEYS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INHIBITORS; MULTIVARIATE DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; UNIVARIATE T-TEST;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33746659471     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2006.878106     Document Type: Review

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