Special issue on transparency and open data policies: Guest editors' introduction

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Zuiderwijk, Anneke ^a   Gascó, Mila ^b   Parycek, Peter ^c   Janssen, Marijn ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^c DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

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EID: 84905661208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07181876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-18762014000300001     Document Type: Article

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