TY - JOUR
AU - MacKinnon, Danny
AB - Global Production Networks (GPNs) have become a key focus of research in economic geography and related fields in recent years. This article has two main aims. First, I offer a critical appraisal of GPN research, focusing on its contribution to the rethinking of regional development processes and the notion of strategic coupling in particular. Second, the article aims to forge a new set of links between GPNs and evolutionary economic geography (EEG), which has also attracted considerable recent interest as a framework for assessing the evolution of economic landscapes. In particular, I use evolutionary approaches and the concept of path dependence to develop a broader and deeper conception of the range of coupling, recoupling and decoupling processes that take place between regions and GPNs, going beyond strategic coupling per se.
TI - Beyond strategic coupling: reassessing the firm-region nexus in global production networks
JF - Journal of Economic Geography
DO - 10.1093/jeg/lbr009
DA - 2012-01-31
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/beyond-strategic-coupling-reassessing-the-firm-region-nexus-in-global-L441M0dB5q
SP - 227
EP - 245
VL - 12
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -