Politics of scale and the globalization of the South Korean automobile industry

Economic Geography

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 173-194

  Park, Bae Gyoon ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Autmobile industry; Globalization; Liberalization; Politics of scale; South Korea; Territorial politics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; GLOBALIZATION; LIBERALIZATION; PROTECTIONISM;

SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 0042769264     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2003.tb00207.x     Document Type: Article

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