The developing economies' banks branches operational strategy in the era of e-banking: The case of Jordan

Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 189-197

  Migdadi, Yazan Khalid Abed Allah ^a  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Branches; E banking; Jordan; Operations Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873604717     PISSN: 17980461     EISSN: 17998859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jetwi.4.2.189-197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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