Factors influencing the decisions of SMEs to purchase software package upgrades

ACIS 2006 Proceedings - 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Roberts, David ^a   Cater Steel, Aileen ^a   Toleman, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovation; SMEs; Software package upgrades

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION THEORY; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS; EXTERNAL INFLUENCES; INNOVATIVENESS; MANY CORE; MULTI-METHOD APPROACH; PACKAGED SOFTWARE; PURCHASE DECISION; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; SMES; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE UPGRADES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SALES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84869105347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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