A quantitative analysis of factors contributing electronic data interchange adoption among Bruneian SMEs: A pilot study

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 728-746

  Seyal, Afzaal H ^a   Rahman, Mohd Noah Abd ^a   Awg Mohammad, Hj Awg Yussof Hj ^a  

^a FACULTY OF ENGINEERING   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Electronic data interchange; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548802412     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150710823183     Document Type: Article

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