Limits to locking-out through restructuring: The textile industry in Daegu, South Korea

Regional Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1183-1198

  Cho, Myungrae ^a   Hassink, Robert ^b,c  

^a Dankook University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM SIZE; INDUSTRIAL REGULATION; INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; INDUSTRIALIZATION; POLICY APPROACH; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; SOUTH KOREA; TAEGU [SOUTH KOREA];

EID: 70449354907     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400802171973     Document Type: Article

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