Marketing technological innovation to LDCs: Lessons from One Laptop Per Child

California Management Review

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 50-68

  Yujuico, Emmanuel ^a   Gelb, Betsy Dubois ^a  

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EID: 80051992804     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cmr.2011.53.2.50     Document Type: Article

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