Impacts of business environment changes on global manufacturing in the Chinese greater Pearl river delta: A supply chain perspective

Applied Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 4505-4514

  Zhang, A ^a   Huang, G Q ^a   Liu, X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facility location; Global manufacturing; Mixed integer programming; Pearl river delta; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; MANUFACTURING; TRADE POLICY;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 80052066588     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.591737     Document Type: Article

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