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View ArticleE-Business and the SME: International Perspectives of Deployment
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View ArticleAre UK SMEs with active web sites more likely to achieve both innovation and...
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View ArticleE-business and process change: two case studies (towards an assessment...
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View ArticleA qualitative study of innovation diffusion: the novel case of a small firm...
AbstractPurpose– Using the case study of a small firm this research study aims to understand the actions required for diffusion of an innovation in a small firm. Design/methodology/approach– The...
View ArticleE-commerce trading activity and the SME sector: an FSB perspective
AbstractPurpose– This study aims to examine e-commerce within UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). More specifically, it seeks to explore associations between e-commerce and internal and...
View ArticleE-commerce for SMEs: empirical insights from three countries
AbstractPurpose– The main purpose of this paper is to study the benefits that an Asian company can achieve by using e-commerce. Another objective is to identify and rank the barriers influencing the...
View ArticleThe adoption of customer relationship management (CRM) technology in SMEs: An...
AbstractPurpose– The aim of this paper is to use an innovation decision process to examine CRM technology adoption in small to medium-sized enterprises and its intrinsic link to the nature of the...
View ArticleIT readiness in small firms
AbstractPurpose– The aim of the paper is to explore conceptually and empirically the application of the concept of IT readiness to small firms. Design/methodology/approach– The approach taken was a...
View ArticleRural small firms' website quality in transition and market economies
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate website quality in rural firms in four countries, by using Gonzalez and Palacios's Web Assessment Index (WAI). There is an assertion in the...
View ArticleThe role of owner/manager in adoption of electronic commerce in small...
AbstractPurpose– Based on theories from the innovation diffusion literature, the purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated model of electronic commerce (EC) adoption in small businesses (SBs)...
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