The division of labor and the formation of industrial clusters in Taiwan

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-86

  Sonobe, Tetsushi ^a   Otsuka, Keijiro ^a  

^a Found Adv Studs on Intl Devmt   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; LABOR DIVISION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33646555458     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2005.00301.x     Document Type: Article

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