Interaction of technological and institutionai change in the development of an electronic commerce system in china's pharmaceutical distribution chain a transaction cost perspective

HEALTHINF 2008 - 1st International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 3-12

  Reimers, Kai ^a   Li, Mingzhi ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Institutional change; Pharmaceutical industry; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; DRUG PRODUCTS PLANTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

DISTRIBUTION CHAINS; DRUG DISTRIBUTIONS; INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; REAL TIME; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES; TRANSACTION COSTS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 57549106920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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