Inward investment, firm embeddedness and place: An assessment of Ireland's multinational software sector

European Urban and Regional Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 243-260

  White, Mark C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Foreign direct investment; Republic of Ireland; Software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INDUSTRY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; SOFTWARE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3242672571     PISSN: 09697764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969776404044022     Document Type: Article

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