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Investigating critical success factors in driving artificial intelligence-based accounting system acceptance and firm performance among SME users in Ghana: Employing a modified information system success model Cover

Investigating critical success factors in driving artificial intelligence-based accounting system acceptance and firm performance among SME users in Ghana: Employing a modified information system success model

Management & Marketing
Volume 20 (2025): Issue 4 (December 2025)
By: Felix Buabeng-Andoh,  Charles Buabeng-Andoh and  Drahomira Pavelkova  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mmcks-2025-0017 | Journal eISSN: 2069-8887 | Journal ISSN: 1842-0206
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Language: English
Page range: 16 - 31
Submitted on: Sep 24, 2025
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Accepted on: Oct 27, 2025
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Published on: Dec 31, 2025
Published by: Society for Business Excellence
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
Artificial intelligence,
Accounting system,
Modified DM-information system success model,
Firm performance,
SMEs
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Business management,
Marketing, sales, customer relations,
Management, organization, corporate governance,
Business development, change management, cooperation,
Entrepreneurship

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