A Preliminary Investigation of Electronic Data Interchange Adoption in Bruneian Small Business Organizations

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-21

  Seyal, Afzaal H ^a   Rahim, Md Mahbubur ^b  

^a FACULTY OF ENGINEERING   (Brunei Darussalam)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

electronic data interchange; IT adoption; small and medium enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052860897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2006.tb00159.x     Document Type: Article

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