Receptivity of India's small and medium-sized enterprises to information system adoption

Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-115

  Sharma, Milind K ^a  

^a JAI NARAIN VYAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Business information integration; Electronic business (e business); Industrial applications; Inter and intra organisational information systems; Strategic information systems

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BUSINESS INFORMATION INTEGRATION; ELECTRONIC BUSINESS (E-BUSINESS); INNOVATION DIFFUSIONS; INTER- AND INTRA-ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEM ADOPTIONS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 60049086415     PISSN: 17517575     EISSN: 17517583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17517570802317901     Document Type: Article

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