Modeling the location choices of foreign investments in Chinese logistics industry

China Economic Review

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 425-437

  HONG, Junjie ^a   CHIN, Anthony T H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

China; Foreign direct investment; Location; Logistics; Service

Indexed keywords

EID: 36248986726     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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