The evolving geography of production hubs and regional value chains across East Asia: Trade in value-added

Journal of World Business

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 404-416

  Suder, Gabriele ^a   Liesch, Peter W ^b   Inomata, Satoshi ^c   Mihailova, Irina ^d   Meng, Bo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPING ECONOMIES   (Japan)

^d HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^e INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPING ECONOMIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

East Asia; Input output data; Production networks; Regional integration; Trade in value added

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930040551     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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