Foreign firms' financial and economic risk in China

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 346-362

  Ling, Florence ^a   Lim, Hwee Loon ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Faithful and Gould   (Singapore)

Author keywords

China; Financial risk; Risk management

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATA ACQUISITION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FINANCE; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

ECONOMIC RISKS; FINANCIAL RISK; FOREIGN FIRMS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34547295799     PISSN: 09699988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09699980710760667     Document Type: Article

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