Global sports commodity chains and Asia's new interregional division of labour

International Journal of the History of Sport

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1299-1314

  Manzenreiter, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Asia; global production networks; late development; sporting goods manufacturing; sports industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884671358     PISSN: 09523367     EISSN: 17439035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2013.793178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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