Rural telephone company adoption of service innovations: A community field theory approach

Rural Sociology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 387-409

  Korsching, Peter F ^a   Sapp, Stephen G ^a   El Ghamrini, Sami ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; RURAL ECONOMY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041917261     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2003.tb00143.x     Document Type: Article

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