The social media innovation challenge in the public sector

Information Polity

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 281-292

  Mergel, Ines ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ICT adoption; social media; Social networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876255534     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IP-2012-000281     Document Type: Article

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