A comparative study to classify ICT developments by economies

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1174-1177

  Huarng, Kun Huang ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Clustering; Gross domestic product; ICT development index; Internet subscribers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053339457     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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