Fluctuating rounds of inward investment in peripheral regions: Semiconductors in the North East of England

Economic Geography

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-73

  Dawley, Stuart J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporation; Historical contexts; Home and host nations; Inward investment; Multinational enterprises; Socio institutional contexts

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORPORATE STRATEGY; DECISION MAKING; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PERIPHERAL REGION; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH TYNESIDE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947682777     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2007.tb00333.x     Document Type: Article

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