Market entry strategies of application service providers: Identifying strategic differentiation

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Desai, B ^a   Weerakkody, V ^a   Currie, W ^a   Tebboune, D E S ^a   Khan, N ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS); WORLD WIDE WEB;

APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER; BUSINESS MODELING; BUSINESS SOLUTIONS; GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATION; INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE VENDORS; PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP; TECHNOLOGY SECTORS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 33749330282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2003.1174430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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