Innovation, globalization, and catch-up of latecomers: Cases of Chinese telecom firms

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 830-849

  Fan, Peilei ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL ECONOMY; GLOBALIZATION; INNOVATION; LEARNING; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TELECOMMUNICATION;

CHINA; KOREA;

EID: 79958041889     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a43152     Document Type: Article

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