A global model or a scaled-down version?: Geographies of convergence and divergence in the Australian retail banking sector

Geoforum

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 315-334

  Argent, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Globalisation; Industrial convergence; Restructuring; Retail banking; Scale

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CONVERGENCE; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; RETAILING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0036065535     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7185(02)00009-X     Document Type: Article

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