Exploring the role of professional associations in collective learning in London and New York's advertising and law professional-service-firm clusters

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 965-984

  Faulconbridge, James R ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; COLLECTIVE ACTION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; URBAN ECONOMY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34248191318     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38190     Document Type: Article

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