Networking and R&D in domestic and FDI plants in Spanish electronics clusters
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To fully understand foreign affiliates’ behaviour in regional agglomerations (hereafter RAs), we argue it would be useful to analyze the networking patterns of such affiliates in reference to domestic firms within the local market environment. Consequently, we examined 184 electronics plants,
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تاریخ انتشار 2009