e-Business usage across and within firms in the UK: profitability, externalities and policy

Research Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 133-143

  Battisti, Giuliana ^a   Canepa, Alessandra ^b   Stoneman, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

e Business; Technological diffusion; Technology policy

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION;

E BUSINESSES; E-BUSINESS; INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES; INTEGRATED PROCESSES; LABOUR FORCES; MODEL ESTIMATES; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; STANDARD ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL DIFFUSION; TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 57749199070     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2008.10.021     Document Type: Article

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