Electronic commerce adoption in SME: The trend of prior studies

Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Mohamad, Rosli ^a   Ismail, Noor Azizi ^b  

^a Universiti Utara Malaysia   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

E Business; E Commerce; Literature Review; Small business; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450216309     PISSN: 12045357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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