The role of resistance in a retail production network: Protests against supermarkets in India

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 317-329

  Franz, Martin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global production networks; India; Liberalization; Resistance; Retail

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY MARKET; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RETAILING; TERMS OF TRADE; TRADE LIBERALIZATION;

INDIA;

EID: 78349270193     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2010.00406.x     Document Type: Article

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