China's wood furniture manufacturing industry: Industrial cluster and export competitiveness

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 214-221

  Hongqiang, Yang ^a,b   Chunyi, Ji ^a,c   Ying, Nie ^c,d   Yinxing, Hong ^b  

^a NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Research Center for Economics and Trade in Forest Products of the State Forestry Administration   (China)

^d JINLING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; FURNITURE MANUFACTURE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; TIMBER;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMERGING COUNTRIES; FORESTRY INDUSTRY; FURNITURE INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL CLUSTER; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; PEARL RIVER DELTA; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

COMPETITION; ECONOMICS; FOREIGN TRADE; FORESTRY; FURNITURE; MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84869064218     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13073/0015-7473-62.3.214     Document Type: Review

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