Strategies for successful information technology adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises

Information (Switzerland)

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-67

  Ghobakhloo, Morteza ^a   Hong, Tang Sai ^a   Sabouri, Mohammad Sadegh ^b   Zulkifli, Norzima ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Implementation; Information system; Information technology; Initial adoption; Post adoption; Small and medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; IMPLEMENTATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; INITIAL ADOPTION; IT ADOPTION; IT APPLICATIONS; POST ADOPTION; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84860318069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20782489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/info3010036     Document Type: Review

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