Foreign retailers in post-WTO China: Stories of success and setbacks

Asia Pacific Business Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-77

  Wang, Shuguang ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; New geography of retailing; Retail internationalization

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; GLOBALIZATION; MODELING; RETAILING; URBAN ECONOMY; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 59649127656     PISSN: 13602381     EISSN: 1743792X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13602380802399353     Document Type: Article

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