Rover and out? Globalisation, the West Midlands auto cluster, and the end of MG Rover

Policy Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 267-279

  Bailey, David ^a   Kobayashi, Seiji ^b   MacNeill, Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automotive industry; Globalisation; Industrial policy; MG Rover; West Midlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949113990     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: 14701006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01442870802159863     Document Type: Article

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