The webs they weave: Malaysia's multimedia super-corridor and New York City's Silicon Alley

Urban Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 379-401

  Indergaard, Michael ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; ENTREPRENEUR; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; MULTIMEDIA;

MALAYSIA; NEW YORK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037308330     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420980220080321     Document Type: Article

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