Critical factors for diffusion of Web technologies for supply chain management functions: Malaysian perspective

European Journal of Social Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 490-505

  Tarofder, Arun Kumar ^a   Marthandan, Govindan ^b   Haque, Ahasanul ^c  

^a MANAGEMENT AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Internet; Supply chain management; Web technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149129084     PISSN: 14502267     EISSN: 14502267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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