Patterns of B2B e-commerce usage in SMEs

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1255-1271

  Sila, Ismail ^a   Dobni, Dawn ^b  

^a KADIR HAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

B2B electronic commerce; Contextual factors; E business; Electronic commerce; Information technology; Internet; Small to medium sized enterprises; Supply chain management; Survey; United States of America

Indexed keywords

B2B E-COMMERCE; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; CURRENT SPEED; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EBUSINESS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FIRM PERFORMANCE; NORTH AMERICAN; ONLINE SURVEYS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PROFILE ANALYSIS; SHEDDING LIGHT; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SMALL TO MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; USAGE PATTERNS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84865447955     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635571211264654     Document Type: Article

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