Accounting for e-commerce: Abstractions, virtualism and the cultural circuit of capital

Economy and Society

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 428-450

  Leyshon, Andrew ^a   French, Shaun ^a   Thrift, Nigel ^b   Crewe, Louise ^a   Webb, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abstractions; Business knowledge; E commerce; Internet; Virtualism

Indexed keywords

E-COMMERCE; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE;

EID: 17444416271     PISSN: 03085147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03085140500112160     Document Type: Article

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