Regional characteristics and the location of foreign firms within Poland

Applied Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 863-874

  Cieślik, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LOCATION DECISION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; WORLD;

EID: 18844433014     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500061087     Document Type: Article

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