Globalization and Transnational Corporations

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 563-569

  Dicken, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foreign direct investment; Geographical scales; Global corporations; Global economic map; Global economy; Globalization; Labor; Newly industrializing economies; Regionalization; States; TNC state bargaining; Transnational corporations (TNCs); Transnational production networks; Transnationalization modes; Transnationalization motivations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996934799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00170-X     Document Type: Chapter

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