The far side of international business: Local initiatives in the global workshop

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-19

  Hansen, Gard Hopsdal ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

China; Clusters; Internationalization; Unintentional knowledge transfer

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GLOBALIZATION; KNOWLEDGE; PRODUCTION SYSTEM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 37249094032     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: 14682710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbm043     Document Type: Article

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