Specific challenges for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME) in m-business: A sme-suitable framework for mobile services

ICE-B 2006 - International Conference on e-Business, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 169-174

  Decker, Michael ^a   Schiefer, Gunther ^a   Bulander, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Platforms frameworks for mobile and wireless services; Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME); Value added mobile data services

Indexed keywords

MARKET STRUCTURES; MOBILE DATA SERVICE; MOBILE SERVICE; PRESENT SITUATION; SMALL- AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; VALUE ADDED; WIRELESS SERVICES; WIRELESS TERMINALS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 77954140812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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