Examining emerging ICT's adoption in SMEs from a dynamic process approach

Information Technology and People

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-82

  Eze, Sunday Chinedu ^a   Duan, Yanqing ^a   Chen, Hsin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Adoption; Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs); Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893456642     PISSN: 09593845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/ITP-03-2013-0044     Document Type: Article

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