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Nme Supply Linkages and the Local SME Sector

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Crone, M.
Watts, D.
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This paper draws on evidence from a new survey of large MNE-owned manufacturing plants in Yorkshire and Humberside and questions the expectation that MNE plants will stimulate the local SME sector though local sourcing of material and component inputs.

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Paper provided by Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland in its series Working Papers NIERC. with number 57.

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Date of creation: 2000
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Handle: RePEc:eri:niercp:57

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Keywords: MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES ; TECHNOLOGY ; SMALL ENTERPRISES;

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L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General

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  1. Ivan Turok, 1993. "Inward Investment and Local Linkages: How Deeply Embedded is "Silicon Glen”?," Regional Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 27(5), pages 401-417, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. J.C. Stewart, 1976. "Linkages and foreign direct investment," Regional Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 10(2), pages 245-258, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. N. A. Phelps, 1993. "Branch Plants and the Evolving Spatial Division of Labour: A Study of Material Linkage Change in the Northern Region of England," Regional Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 27(2), pages 87-101, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. N A Phelps, 1993. "Contemporary industrial restructuring and linkage change in an older industrial region: examples from the northeast of England," Environment and Planning A, Pion Ltd, London, vol. 25(6), pages 863-882, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Crone, Mike & Roper, Stephen, 1999. "Knowledge Transfers from Multi-national Plants in Northern Ireland," ERSA conference papers ersa99pa053, European Regional Science Association. [Downloadable!]
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