Industrial clusters, transactions costs and the institutional determinants of MNE location behaviour

International Business Review

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 647-663

  McCann, Philip ^a   Arita, Tomokazu ^b   Gordon, Ian R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clusters; Institutions; Organizations; Semiconductors; Transactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036883701     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-5931(02)00043-4     Document Type: Article

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