Analysing ownership, locational and internalization advantages of Chinese construction MNCs using rough sets analysis

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1149-1165

  Pheng, Low Sui ^a   Hongbin, Jiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Chinese multinational corporations; Electic paradigm; International construction; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; ROUGH SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

INTERNALIZATION ADVANTAGE; LOCATIONAL ADVANTAGE; MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS; OWNERSHIP ADVANTAGE;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

ACCESSIBILITY; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; OWNERSHIP; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33751296956     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190500435739     Document Type: Article

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