From the telephone to the economic exchange: How small businesses use the telephone in their market relations

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 117-134

  Mallard, Alexandre ^a  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; TELEPHONE NETWORK;

EID: 1542427134     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d318t     Document Type: Article

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