Information technology adoption by small businesses in minority and ethnic communities

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Qureshi, Sajda ^a   York, Anne S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IT ADOPTION; SMALL BUSINESSES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 51449089951     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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