Agile firms and their spatial organisation of business activities in the Greater Pearl River Delta;Agilität der Unternehmen und räumliche organisation ihrer Aktivitäten im Perlflussdelta

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Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 251-269

  Diez, Javier Revilla ^a   Schiller, Daniel ^a   Meyer, Susanne ^a   Liefner, Ingo ^b   Brömer, Christian ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agility; China; Firm organisation; Informality; Spatial division of labour

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; FIRM SIZE; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; LABOR DIVISION; REGIONAL ECONOMY; RESEARCH WORK;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; HONG KONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 58249105910     PISSN: 00139998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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