Developmental and quiescent subsidiaries in the Asia Pacific: Evidence from Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Sydney

Economic Geography

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 195-214

  Poon, Jessie P H ^a   Thompson, Edmund R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Ritsumeikan Asian Pacific University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asia Pacific; Developmental and quiescent subsidiaries; Embeddedness; Regional headquarters; Transnational corporations

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA; HONG KONG; NEW SOUTH WALES; SHANGHAI; SINGAPORE; SYDNEY;

EID: 0042208296     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2003.tb00208.x     Document Type: Article

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