E-readiness of website acceptance and implementation in SMEs

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-55

  Hung, Wei Hsi ^a   Chang, Li Min ^a   Lin, Chieh Pin ^a   Hsiao, Chun Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acceptance of information technology; Corporate website; E readiness; Small and medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

ACCEPTANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; CORPORATE WEBSITES; E-READINESS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCES; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING TECHNIQUES; TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84906504942     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.046     Document Type: Article

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