Stage models of ICT adoption in small firms

Impact of E-Commerce on Consumers and Small Firms

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-20

  Gray, Colin ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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