Foreign direct investment and host country productivity: The American automotive component industry in the 1980s

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-218

  Chung, Wilbur ^a   Mitchell, W ^b   Yeung, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automotive; Competition; FDI; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038442951     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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