30 Years of foreign direct investment to China: An interdisciplinary literature review

International Business Review

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-246

  Fetscherin, Marc ^a,b   Voss, Hinrich ^c   Gugler, Philippe ^d  

^a ROLLINS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; China; Citation map; Foreign direct investment; Literature review

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952544545     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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