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Towards a Taxonomy for Regulatory Issues in a Digital Business Ecosystem in the EU

Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood, Jonathan Liebenau., Panayiota Tsatsou

Journal of Information Technology, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 289 - 307

Swansea University Author: Panayiota Tsatsou

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DOI (Published version): 10.1057/jit.2009.22

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This paper addresses the role of trust and regulation where small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union make use of e-business in a digital business ecosystem (DBE). We argue that in order for digital business to develop among entrepreneurs in the EU and within different industry...

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Published: Palgrave 2009
Online Access: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jit/journal/v25/n3/abs/jit200922a.html
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