Impacts of horizontal and vertical foreign investment in business services: The experience of Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic

European Urban and Regional Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 427-443

  Hardy, Jane ^a   Sass, Magdolna ^b   Fifekova, Martina Pollakova ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

business services; foreign direct investment; new member states; offshore outsourcing; offshoring

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; LABOR DIVISION; LABOR MARKET; OUTSOURCING;

CZECH REPUBLIC; HUNGARY; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 80053994069     PISSN: 09697764     EISSN: 14617145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969776411422618     Document Type: Article

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