An exploratory model of inter-country Internet diffusion

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 237-252

  Beilock, Richard ^a   Dimitrova, Daniela V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; RESEARCH;

INTERNET USAGE RATES (IUR);

INTERNET;

EID: 0037376056     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-5961(02)00100-3     Document Type: Article

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