Do local manufacturing firms benefit from transactional linkages with multinational enterprises in China

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1113-1130

  Liu, Xiaming ^a,b   Wang, Chengang ^c   Wei, Yingqi ^d  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FDI; Firm and sector groupings; Horizontal and vertical linkages; Technological capabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949148467     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2008.97     Document Type: Article

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