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Delivering on the Concept of Smart Villages – in Search of an Enabling Theory

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Language: English
Page range: 634 - 650
Submitted on: Dec 20, 2018
Accepted on: Apr 12, 2019
Published on: Dec 30, 2019
Published by: Mendel University in Brno
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