Industrial clusters in China: The low road versus the high road in cluster development

Development on the Ground: Clusters, Networks and Regions in Emerging Economies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 145-164

  Wang, Jici ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 68649100059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203961667     Document Type: Chapter

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