Beyond "Global Production Networks": Australian fashion week's trans-sectoral synergies

Growth and Change

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-122

  Weller, Sally ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; WORLD CITY;

EID: 38949180943     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2007.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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