Jordan and ICT-led development: Towards a competition state?

Information Technology & People

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-110

  Al Jaghoub, Saheer ^a   Westrup, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communications technology; Competition; Information technology; Ireland; Jordan; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749114323     PISSN: 09593845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09593840310463032     Document Type: Article

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