Foreign direct investments in business services: Transforming the visegrád four region into a knowledge-based economy?

European Planning Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1611-1631

  Capik, Paweł ^a   Drahokoupil, Jan ^b  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; COMPETITIVENESS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INVESTMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; OUTSOURCING; SERVICE SECTOR; SKILLED LABOR;

CZECH REPUBLIC; HUNGARY; POLAND; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 80053334181     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2011.586181     Document Type: Article

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