Business-to-business e-procurement: Success factors and challenges to implementation

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 104-115

  Angeles, Rebecca ^a   Nath, Ravi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business to business marketing; Electronic commerce; Procurement; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947106968     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598540710737299     Document Type: Article

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