The vendors' perspective on the choice process of IP telephony

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 174-189

  Constantiou, Ioanna D ^a   Papazafeiropoulou, Anastasia ^b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice process; Diffusion process; IP telephony; Network effects; Quality of service; Switching cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 62749100532     PISSN: 1368275X     EISSN: 17415098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijeim.2009.023851     Document Type: Article

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