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In recent years, corporate wikis have been increasingly adopted in enterprises. However, little research is devoted to the adoption and use of wikis in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are of high social and economic importance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the usage of enterprise wikis in SMEs and potential concerns that may hinder the diffusion of wikis in SMEs as w...

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Li Cheng1,2,3, Shujuan Guo1,2,3, and Shengce Tao1,2,3* Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai 200240, China School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China *Correspondence addr...

a Department of Physics and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240 Shanghai, China b Institute of Applied Physics, CREST-JST, University of Tsukuba, 305-8573 Tsukuba, Japan c Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical System, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 200093 Shanghai, China d Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China e Research Institute of Micro/N...

In small countries such as New Zealand, small to mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are defined as enterprises employing 19 or fewer employees. Small enterprises are defined as those employing zero to five full-time employees (FTEs) (often called microbusinesses), and medium-sized enterprises as those employing six to nineteen FTEs. Other countries, such as the United States and European countries,...

doi: 10.3967/bes2015.117 This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation major international (regional) joint research project (81220108006) to WJ; Young Scientists Fund of National Natural Science Foundation (81200292); ‘Chen Guang’ project supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (13CG11); Shanghai Rising-Star Progra...