Nature and determinants of productivity growth of foreign subsidiaries in Central and East European countries

Economic Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 168-184

  Majcen, Boris ^a   Radosevic, Slavo ^b   Rojec, Matija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; Foreign subsidiaries; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349114545     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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