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Do Bulgarian SMEs Differ from Their International Peers in Adoption of AI?

By: Lingling Ma  
Open Access
|Jul 2025

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Language: English
Page range: 3400 - 3410
Published on: Jul 24, 2025
Published by: Bucharest University of Economic Studies
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