The influence of information behaviour on information sharing across cultural boundaries in development contexts

Information Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Meyer, Hester W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

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