Transborder openness of companies in a divided city: Zgorzelec/Görlitz case study

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 347-361

  Dolzblasz, Sylwia ^a   Raczyk, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Business landscape; Cross border co operation; Divided city; Polish German borderland; Shopping mobility; Transborder relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862297363     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2011.00688.x     Document Type: Article

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