Connecting the ‘Workshop of the World’: Intra- and Extra-Service Networks of the Pearl River Delta City-Region

Regional Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1069-1081

  Zhang, Xu ^a   Kloosterman, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

City region; Network; Pearl River Delta; Polycentricity; Producer services

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MANUFACTURING; POLICY APPROACH;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 84911478632     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2014.962492     Document Type: Article

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