The transition to internationally traded services and Ireland's emergence as a 'successful' European region

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2169-2188

  Grimes, Seamus ^a   White, Mark ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INVESTMENT INCENTIVE; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 30744455745     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a37332     Document Type: Article

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