The limits to localization in declining industrial regions? Trans-national corporations and economic development is Sedgefield Borough

European Planning Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 407-428

  Pike, Andy ^a   Tomaney, John ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REGENERATION; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; LOCAL ECONOMY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032801627     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654319908720527     Document Type: Article

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