The importance of business travel for industrial clusters - Making sense of nomadic workers

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 245-255

  Wickham, James ^a   Vecchi, Alessandra ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Air travel; Clusters; Ireland; Software industry

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; BUSINESS; CITIZENSHIP; MOBILITY; WORKPLACE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349878383     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0467.2009.00318.x     Document Type: Article

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