Determinants of Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge sharing in SMEs

Service Business

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 425-438

  Soto Acosta, Pedro ^a   Perez Gonzalez, Daniel ^b   Popa, Simona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Internet; Knowledge sharing; SMEs; Technology adoption; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905367652     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-014-0247-9     Document Type: Article

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