Cloud computing in industrial SMEs: Identification of the barriers to its adoption and effects of its application

Electronic Markets

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 105-114

  Trigueros Preciado, Sara ^a   Pérez González, Daniel ^a   Solana González, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barriers to adoption; Cloud computing; Effects; Industrial SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878556171     PISSN: 10196781     EISSN: 14228890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12525-012-0120-4     Document Type: Article

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