Transnational corporations and 'obligated embeddedness': Foreign direct investment in China's automobile industry

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1229-1247

  Liu, Weidong ^a   Dicken, Peter ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; JOINT VENTURE; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33746404711     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a37206     Document Type: Article

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