Embedded Local Growth: A Theory Taken too Far?

GeoJournal Library

Volumn 80, Issue , 2005, Pages 69-88

  Taylor, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embeddedness Model; Local Economic Growth; Local Growth; Original Equipment Manufacturing; Reci Procity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103732358     PISSN: 09245499     EISSN: 22150072     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3679-5_4     Document Type: Chapter

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