Capital, state and space: Contesting the borderless world

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 291-309

  Yeung, Henry Wai Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Economic activity; Global economy; Globalization; Multinational enterprise

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GLOBALIZATION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

EID: 0032450038     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0020-2754.1998.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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