The urban geography of subsidiary headquarters in North America: Explorations by sector and foreign linkage

Urban Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 595-622

  Rice, Murray D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

corporate subsidiaries; headquarters head offices; quaternary location theory

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; COMPLEXITY; CORPORATE STRATEGY; LOCATION THEORY; URBAN GEOGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 78650605335     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.31.5.595     Document Type: Article

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