Meeting the challenges of ICT adoption by micro-enterprises

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 616-632

  Wolcott, Peter ^a   Kamal, Mehruz ^a   Qureshi, Sajda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action research; Communication technologies; Small enterprises; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349119191     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410390810911212     Document Type: Article

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