An empirical study about the impacts of China's accession to the WTO on the telecommunications industry in China

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-50

  Fang, Xiang ^a   Yen, David C ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet content providers (ICP); Internet service providers (ISP); Telecommunication; World Trade Organization (WTO)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645499532     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327744joce1601_2     Document Type: Article

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