From entrepot to entrepot via merchant manufacturing: Adaptive mechanisms, organizational capabilities and the structure of the Hong Kong economy

Asia Pacific Business Review

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-32

  Carney, Mick ^b   Davies, Howard ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; MANUFACTURING; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 0033491420     PISSN: 13602381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13602380012331289090     Document Type: Article

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