An inquiry into the transformation process of village-based industrial clusters: The case of an iron and steel cluster in northern Vietnam

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 568-581

  Hoang Nam, Vu ^a   Sonobe, Tetsushi ^b   Otsuka, Keijiro ^b  

^a FOREIGN TRADE UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Industrial cluster; Iron and steel production; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449365003     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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