Technologies of transition: Foreign investment and the (Re-)articulation of east central Europe into the global economy

Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: A Collection of Essays in Memory of Professor Francis 'Frank' Carter

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 21-37

  Pickles, John ^a   Smith, Adrian ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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