A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR MEASURING B2B INTEGRATION READINESS OF SMES

Spiros Mouzakitis, Aikaterini-Maria Sourouni, Fenareti Lampathaki, John Psarras

2008

Abstract

In the dawn of 21st century, companies are seeking ways to perform transactions efficiently and effectively. Enterprises must tackle B2B integration and adoption challenges in the short term in order to survive in such a competitive business environment of nowadays. However, most enterprises, and especially SMEs, lack the necessary technical and non-technical infrastructure as well the economic potential in order to efficiently adopt a B2B integration framework. This paper presents a methodological approach towards measuring the B2B integration readiness of Enterprises and the development of the software system to support it.

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in Harvard Style

Mouzakitis S., Sourouni A., Lampathaki F. and Psarras J. (2008). A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR MEASURING B2B INTEGRATION READINESS OF SMES . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-36-4, pages 298-303. DOI: 10.5220/0001708002980303


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Spiros Mouzakitis and Aikaterini-Maria Sourouni and Fenareti Lampathaki and John Psarras},
title={A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR MEASURING B2B INTEGRATION READINESS OF SMES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={298-303},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001708002980303},
isbn={978-989-8111-36-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR MEASURING B2B INTEGRATION READINESS OF SMES
SN - 978-989-8111-36-4
AU - Mouzakitis S.
AU - Sourouni A.
AU - Lampathaki F.
AU - Psarras J.
PY - 2008
SP - 298
EP - 303
DO - 10.5220/0001708002980303