What is Chinese about Chinese Businesses? Locating the 'rise of China' in global production networks

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 18, Issue 58, 2009, Pages 7-25

  Pan, Chengxin ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; FRAGMENTATION; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GLOBALIZATION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 57649179666     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: 14699400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670560802431404     Document Type: Article

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