Attracting foreign investment? The role of investment incentives in the ASEAN operations of transnational corporations

Pacific Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 505-529

  Yeung, Henry Wai‐chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEAN; DEVELOPING COUNTRY MNC; DEVELOPING REGION; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; FOREIGN INVESTMENT; INVESTMENT INCENTIVE; INVESTMENT INCENTIVES; TRANSNATIONAL PRODUCTION;

EID: 0030404733     PISSN: 09512748     EISSN: 14701332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09512749608719201     Document Type: Article

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