Are central and Eastern European countries managing to develop the information society?

Transformations in Business and Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 18-41

  Gómez Barroso, José Luis ^a   Feijoo, Claudio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Central and eastern european countries; ICTs; Information society; Public policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953271402     PISSN: 16484460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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