The adoption behaviour of information technology industry in increasing business-to-business integration sophistication

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-24

  Wang, William Y C ^a   Heng, Michael S H ^b   Chau, Patrick Y K ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

B2B eCommerce; Business network; Business to business integration; IT adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749108498     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2008.00298.x     Document Type: Article

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