Internet adoption and use in small firms: internal processes, organisational culture and the roles of the owner-manager and key staff
New Technology, Work and Employment
2005
20
3
November
190-204
information technology ; Internet ; SME ; work organization
Information and library science
English
Bibliogr.
"Emerging from a study of Internet adoption in UK Midlands manufacturing small firms is a new typology characterising owners and key staff as Warriors, Interpreters, Clerks and Priests. This typology is used to explore the impacts of internal factors and organisational culture on innovation and new technology usage in small firms."
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