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TY - CHAP
T1 - Vertical application service provision
T2 - An SME perspective
AU - Lockett, Nigel J.
AU - Brown, David H.
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - Against a background of the low engagement of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in e-business, this chapter investigates the impact of e-aggregation applications, provided by emerging vertical application service providers (VSP), and defined as "an e-business application, promoted by a trusted third party, which engages a significant number of SMEs by addressing an important shared business concern within an aggregation". By conducting quantitative surveys of four aggregations of SMEs using these applications (users) and comparing these results with similar enterprises who are not (non-users) the research takes a deliberate SME perspective.
AB - Against a background of the low engagement of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in e-business, this chapter investigates the impact of e-aggregation applications, provided by emerging vertical application service providers (VSP), and defined as "an e-business application, promoted by a trusted third party, which engages a significant number of SMEs by addressing an important shared business concern within an aggregation". By conducting quantitative surveys of four aggregations of SMEs using these applications (users) and comparing these results with similar enterprises who are not (non-users) the research takes a deliberate SME perspective.
U2 - 10.4018/978-1-59904-477-4.ch010
DO - 10.4018/978-1-59904-477-4.ch010
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84900089672
SN - 9781599044774
SN - 1599044773
SN - 9781616927806
SP - 201
EP - 223
BT - Modelling and Analysis of Enterprise Information Systems
A2 - Gunasekaran, Angappa
PB - IGI Global
CY - Hershey, PA
ER -