Transnational state entrepreneurship? Assessing Singapore's Suzhou industrial park project (1994-2004)

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 287-298

  Pereira, Alexius A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Development policy; Internationalisation; Singapore; State entrepreneurship; Suzhou

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PROFITABILITY; STATE OWNED ENTERPRISE;

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

EID: 35948938034     PISSN: 13607456     EISSN: 14678373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2007.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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