An e-government initiative to support supply chain integration for small to medium sized enterprises: Successes and challenges

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 63-80

  Chen, Hsin ^a   Papazafeiropoulou, Anastasia ^b   Wu, Chingfang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c YU DA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Case Studies; E government Policies; Information Technology; Integration Technologies; SMEs; Supply Chain Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860599134     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2096140.2096145     Document Type: Article

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