An Empirical Study on Telecommunication Product Adoption in Latin America and the Caribbean

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-17

  Bagchi, Kallol K ^a   Solis, Adriano O ^a   Gemoets, Leopoldo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Latin America and the Caribbean; Pooled regression; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449098315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2003.tb00099.x     Document Type: Article

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