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Mobile Carrier Selection In A Post-Conflict Environment – The Primacy Of Ethnicity Over Conventional Network Effects

South East European Journal of Economics and Business
Volume 10 (2015): Issue 2 (December 2015)
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|Jan 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jeb-2015-0010 | Journal eISSN: 2233-1999 | Journal ISSN: 1840-118X
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Language: English
Page range: 55 - 68
Published on: Jan 13, 2016
Published by: University of Sarajevo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year
Keywords:
network effects,
mobile telecommunications,
survey data,
ethnicity,
logistic regression,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
JEL:
M15,
O32
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Business management,
Business management, other

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