Organised for inward investment? Development agencies, local government, and firms in the inward investment process

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2025-2051

  Fuller, Crispian ^a   Bennett, Robert J ^a   Ramsden, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT AID; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; INVESTMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0347603856     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a35296     Document Type: Article

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