Making connections: Global production networks, standards, and embeddedness in the mobile-telecommunications industry

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1205-1227

  Hess, Martin ^a   Coe, Neil M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 33746453717     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38168     Document Type: Article

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