Many roads to flexibility: How large firms built autarchic regional production systems in France

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 510-526

  Hancké, Bob ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; REGIONALIZATION; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

FRANCE;

EID: 0142214616     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00464     Document Type: Article

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