Lessons learnt from the broadband diffusion in South Korea and the UK: Implications for future government intervention in technology diffusion

Electronic Government

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 373-385

  Choudrie, Jyoti ^a   Papazafeiropoulou, Anastasia ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadband; Government role; IT diffusion and adoption; Korea; UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749638738     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2006.010800     Document Type: Article

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