False promises: E-business deployment in Wales' SME community

Journal of Systems and Information Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-178

  Jones, Paul ^a   Packham, Gary ^a   Beynon Davies, Paul ^b   Pickernell, David ^a  

^a University of Glamorgan   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Small to medium sized enterprises; Wales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993063406     PISSN: 13287265     EISSN: 17588847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13287261111135990     Document Type: Article

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