Exploring the digital divide in mobile-phone adoption levels across countries: Do population socioeconomic traits operate in the same manner as their individual-level demographic counterparts?

Journal of Macromarketing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 397-412

  Stump, Rodney L ^a   Gong, Wen ^b   Li, Zhan ^c  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Country level adoption; Digital divide; Information and communications technologies; Mobile telephone

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849133728     PISSN: 02761467     EISSN: 15526534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0276146708325386     Document Type: Article

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