Multi-level modularity vs. hierarchy: Global production networks in Singapore's electronics industry

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-83

  Vind, Ingeborg ^a   Fold, Niels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Contract manufacturing; Electronics; Global production network; Globalization; Modular production network; Singapore

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MANUFACTURING;

ASIA; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 34548319398     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2007.10801376     Document Type: Article

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