ICT and Productivity of the Manufacturing Industries in Iran

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-19

  Gholami, Roghieh ^a   Moshiri, Saeed ^b   Lee, Sang Yong Tom ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ICT; Iran; Stochastic Frontier Production Function; Technical Efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 85094190659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2004.tb00125.x     Document Type: Article

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