Beyond embeddedness: Economic practices and the invisible dimensions of transnational business activity

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-88

  Jones, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Economic practice; Embeddedness; Globalization; Relationality; Transnational business

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC THEORY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GLOBALIZATION;

EID: 45549107918     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132507084817     Document Type: Article

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