Geographies of corporate decision-making and control: Development, applications, and future directions in headquarters location research

Geography Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 320-334

  Rice, Murray D ^a   Lyons, Donald I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; RESEARCH; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 77957121477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00319.x     Document Type: Review

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