Internationalization and embeddedness in east-Central European transition: the contrasting geographies of inward investment in the Czech and Slovak Republics

Regional Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 619-638

  Pavlínek, Petr ^b   Smith, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; INVESTMENT; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

CZECH REPUBLIC; SLOVAKIA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0031733222     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343409850119517     Document Type: Article

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