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Cross-Border Plant Closures in Context: Some Evidence from the UKUniversity of Sheffield, UK, h.watts{at}sheffield.ac.uk Cross-border closures are defined as arising when a firm ceases production of a commodity in one EU country but maintains production of the same commodity in another EU country. Analysis of a new data set drawn from a comprehensive review of press reports for the years 1995-9 shows that the number of UK plant closures associated with cross-border closures within the EU is surprisingly small.
Key Words: corporate restructuring multinational enterprises Single European Market
European Urban and Regional Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3,
265-271 (2001) |
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