An investigation into E-commerce adoption profile for small and medium-sized enterprises in bury, greater Manchester, UK

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4655 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 68-77

  Qi, Baomin ^a   McGilligan, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Bury College   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

e adoption for SMEs; E commerce; Regional business in the UK

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION; E-ADOPTION FOR SME; REGIONAL BUSINESS IN THE UK;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 38049060827     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74563-1_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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