SMEs need formative infrastructure for business transformation

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 520-533

  Gäre, Klas ^a   Melin, Ulf ^b  

^a JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adoption; Formative infrastructure; ICT use; Information technology; Sensegiving; Sensemaking; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055042584     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410391111166558     Document Type: Article

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