Owner/Manager characteristics, organisational characteristics and IT adoption in small and medium enterprises

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 619-634

  Chuang, Ta Tao ^a   Rutherford, Matthew W ^b   Lin, Binshan ^c  

^a GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic factors; Information technology adoption; Organisational factors; Small and medium enterprises; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949107906     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2007.014985     Document Type: Article

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