Online Social Networks, Location, and the Dual Effect of Distance from the Centre

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 298-315

  Lengyel, Balázs ^a,b   Jakobi, Ákos ^c  

^a International Business School Budapest   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

diffusion; distance; Hungary; innovation; Online social networks; spatial regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934782905     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12150     Document Type: Article

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