Service strategies of small cloud service providers: A case study of a small cloud service provider and its clients in Taiwan

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 406-415

  Wang, Feng Kwei ^a   He, Wu ^b  

^a CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud adoption; Cloud computing; Cloud based service; E learning; Small enterprises

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMMERCE; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; E-LEARNING;

CLOUD ADOPTIONS; CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDERS; CLOUD-BASED; E-LEARNING SERVICES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; SMALL ENTERPRISE; TAIWANESE ENTERPRISE; TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84899445973     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2014.01.007     Document Type: Article

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