What really goes on Silicon Valley? Spatial clustering and dispersal in modular production networks

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-225

  Sturgeon, Timothy J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronics industry; Globalization; Industrial organization; Modular production network; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; OUTSOURCING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0348218217     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/3.2.199     Document Type: Article

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