E-business, innovation and SMEs: The significance of hosted services and firm aggregations

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-112

  Brown, David H ^a   Lockett, Nigel ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Hosted applications; ICT adoption; Information and communication technology; Innovation; Intermediaries; Networks; Small to medium sized enterprises; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947698309     PISSN: 1368275X     EISSN: 17415098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEIM.2007.012175     Document Type: Article

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