Embedding foreign affiliates in transnational business networks: The case of Hong Kong firms in Southeast Asia

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 201-222

  Yeung, Henry Wai Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

(SOUTHEAST); ASIA;

EID: 0034050226     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a31173     Document Type: Article

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