Formation of foreign direct investment clustering - A new path to local economic development? The case of Qingdao

Regional Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 265-280

  Kim, Jun Yeup ^a   Zhang, Le Yin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buyer supplier linkages; China; Electronics industry; Foreign direct investment; Industrial cluster

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; LOCAL ECONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGDAO; SHANDONG;

EID: 40749114347     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400601145186     Document Type: Article

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