The rise and fall of a dot-com pioneer in a developing country

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 228-239

  Effah, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Developing country; Dot com; E business; E tail; Ghana; Success and failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893431738     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JEIM-04-2012-0016     Document Type: Article

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