Leveraging the Global Information Revolution for Economic Development: Singapore's Evolving Information Industry Strategy

Information Systems Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 323-341

  Wong, Poh Kam ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Information Industries; Informatization; IT Policy; Network Infrastructure; Singapore

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; PUBLIC POLICY;

INFORMATION INDUSTRY; INFORMATIZATION; IT POLICIES; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; SINGAPORE;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0032244356     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.9.4.323     Document Type: Article

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