Factors influencing the adoption of B2B Trading exchanges in small businesses in Western Australia: A field study approach

PACIS 2006 - 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: ICT and Innovation Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 385-400

  Quaddus, Mohammed ^a   Hofmeyer, Glenn ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption diffusion; B2B Trading exchanges; Content analysis; Field study; Small business

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION/DIFFUSION; B2B TRADING EXCHANGES; CONTENT ANALYSIS; FIELD STUDIES; SMALL BUSINESS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 34547592367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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