ICT and innovation in small companies

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1226-1239

  Schubert, Petra ^a   Fisher, Julie ^b   Leimstoll, Uwe ^c  

^a Department of Computer Science ^*  (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ICT; Information technology; Innovation; Small business

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS STRATEGY; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; ICT; INNOVATIVENESS; POLICY MAKERS; SMALL BUSINESS; SMALL COMPANIES; STRONG LINK;

COMPETITION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 67249091933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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