The critical success factors affecting the adoption of inter-organization systems by SMEs

Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 400-416

  Fu, Hsin Pin ^a   Chang Prof, Tien Hsiang ^a   Ku, Cheng Yuan ^b   Chang, Tsung Sheng ^b   Huang, Cheng Hsin ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business to business marketing; Critical success factors; Electronic commerce

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926630635     PISSN: 08858624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JBIM-04-2012-0070     Document Type: Article

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