Delivering ICT to ethnic minority businesses: An action-research approach

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 847-867

  Beckinsale, Martin ^a   Ram, Monder ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; ETHNIC MINORITY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; POLICY MAKING; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846411499     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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