The benefits of e-business adoption: An empirical study of Swedish SMEs

Service Business

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 233-245

  Beheshti, Hooshang M ^a   Salehi Sangari, Esmail ^b  

^a RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Barriers to entry; Customer relations; E business; E strategy; Performance improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547119979     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-006-0010-y     Document Type: Article

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