FDI Spillovers at the National and Subnational Level: The Impact on Product Innovation by Chinese Firms

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 413-435

  Li, Jing ^a   Chen, Dong ^b   Shapiro, Daniel M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JP Morgan Private Bank Asia   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese firms; Clusters; FDI spillovers; Product innovation; Subnational FDI spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887538123     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/more.12025     Document Type: Article

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