The impact of foreign direct investment on labour productivity in the Chinese electronics industry

International Business Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 421-439

  Liu, Xiaming ^a   Parker, David ^a   Vaidya, Kirit ^a   Wei, Yingqi ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Electronics industry; F21; FDI; L63; Labour productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042414051     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-5931(01)00024-5     Document Type: Article

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