Towards a Regional Strategy: The Role of Regional Headquarters of Foreign Firms in Singapore.
This paper presents a framework for analysing the role of regional headquarters in the globalisation strategies of transnational corporations (TNCs). Drawing upon a theoretical gap in existing urban studies and international business literature, we argue that the triadisation and regionalisation of...
| Publicado en: | Urban Studies (Routledge) Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 157 - 184 |
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