Foreign direct investment and the locational competitiveness of countries

Transnational Corporations

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1-30

  Dunning, John H ^a,b   Zhang, Feng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Country Competitiveness; Economic Development; FDI; Institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149099587     PISSN: 10149562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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