An empirical study of factors affecting electronic commerce adoption among SMEs in Malaysia;Veiksnių, turinčių įtakos elektorinei prekybai, studija: Malaizijos pavyzdys

Journal of Business Economics and Management

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 375-399

  Alam, Syed Shah ^a   Ali, Md Yunus ^b   Jani, Mohd Fauzi Mohd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

E commerce; Malaysia; Relative advantage; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053204476     PISSN: 16111699     EISSN: 20294433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/16111699.2011.576749     Document Type: Article

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