Drivers of e-business activity in developed and emerging markets

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 155-166

  Di Gregorio, Dante ^a   Kassicieh, Suleiman K ^a   De Gouvea Neto, Raul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Determinants of e business activity; Digital divide; E business policy for countries; E commerce issues; Emerging markets; Entrepreneurship and e business; Models of e commerce usage; Statistical analysis of e commerce parameters

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MARKETING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DETERMINANTS OF E-BUSINESS ACTIVITY; DIGITAL DIVIDE; EMERGING MARKETS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 18544377999     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2005.844464     Document Type: Article

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