Globalization: Countries, cities and multinationals

Regional Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-32

  McCann, Philip ^a,b   Acs, Zoltan J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cities; Countries; Globalization; Multinational firms; Scale

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CONNECTIVITY; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMY OF SCALE; GLOBALIZATION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; NATION STATE; SIZE EFFECT;

EID: 78650482255     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2010.505915     Document Type: Article

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