An investigation of the effect of electronic business on financial performance of Spanish manufacturing SMEs

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 136, Issue , 2018, Pages 355-362

  Popa, Simona ^a   Soto Acosta, Pedro ^a   Perez Gonzalez, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electronic business; Financial performance; Innovation; Manufacturing; Mediation effect; SMEs

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FINANCE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MANUFACTURE;

ELECTRONIC BUSINESS; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; MEDIATION EFFECT; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; SMES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

BUSINESS; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INNOVATION; MANUFACTURING; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

SPAIN;

EID: 84994850610     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.08.012     Document Type: Article

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