The rise of a global infrastructure market through relational investing

Economic Geography

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-97

  Torrance, Morag ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CP2 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Geographies of information; Infrastructure; Institutional investors; Investment process; Relational investing

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; INFRASTRUCTURE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; INVESTMENT; MANAGEMENT; OWNERSHIP; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 72749123211     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2008.01004.x     Document Type: Article

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