Cross-border M & As and the changing economic geography of Europe

European Planning Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 765-789

  Zademach, Hans Martin ^a   Rodríguez Pose, Andrés ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; EUROPEAN UNION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MERGER;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 67650321552     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654310902778276     Document Type: Article

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