Our Mousetrap's Fine: So Why Aren't People Beating A Path To Our Door?

Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ)

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 28-39

  Ditsa, George ^a   Macgregor, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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EID: 85001861270     PISSN: 10401628     EISSN: 15337979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/irmj.1997070103     Document Type: Article

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