Developing difference: Social organization and the rise of the auto industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina

American Sociological Review

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 722-747

  Biggart, Nicole Woolsey ^a   Guillén, Mauro F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MANUFACTURING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH KOREA; SPAIN; TAIWAN;

EID: 0033386852     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2657373     Document Type: Article

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