An online information system to support blended training of rural SMEs on e-government

Program

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 123-143

  Tzikopoulos, Argiris ^a   Manouselis, Nikos ^b   Kastrantas, Kostas ^b   Costopoulou, Constantina ^c  

^a Ellinogermaniki Agogi   (Greece)

^b University of Alcala   (Greece)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

E government; E learning; Learning repository; Small to medium sized enterprises; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856779626     PISSN: 00330337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00330331211204593     Document Type: Article

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