International case studies: To what extent is ICT infused into the operations of SMEs?

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 608-624

  Fink, Dieter ^a   Disterer, Georg ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Australia; Case studies; Communication technologies; Germany; Small to medium sized enterprises; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750695696     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390610708490     Document Type: Article

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