Small and Medium Enterprises sourcing Software as a Service - A dynamic perspective on is capabilities

Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Venkatachalam, Nagarajan ^a   Fielt, Erwin ^a   Rosemann, Michael ^a   Mathews, Shane ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic Capabilities; IS Capabilities; Small and Medium Enterprises; Software as a Service

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WEB SERVICES;

DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; GLOBAL INNOVATION; INTANGIBLE ASSETS; IS CAPABILITIES; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP; VENDOR DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS);

EID: 84928187581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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