Strategies for global competition: Transnational chemical firms and Singapore's chemical cluster

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 847-869

  Wang, Jason H J ^a   Yeung, Henry Wai Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPETITION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

EID: 0034115976     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a32147     Document Type: Article

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