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Chapter 3

Chapter 3. Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy. Review. Concepts to Review Globalization Hyper- globalizers , sceptics , transformationalists Key Words

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Chapter 3

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  1. Chapter 3 Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy

  2. Review • Concepts to Review • Globalization • Hyper-globalizers, sceptics, transformationalists • Key Words • Global production networks, transnational corporations, processes of globalization, connectivity, complexity, geographical clusters

  3. Global Production Networks • Definition of GPNs • GPNs are networks which are geographically extensive and functionally integrated across national boundaries rather than actually span the whole world • Traits of GPNs • Turning inputs into outputs through production circuits • Unevenness of power relations • Involved in both cooperation and competition at the same time. • Integrate firms into structures which blur traditional organizational boundaries

  4. … GPNs (continued) • Infrastructure of GPNs • Formation of GPNs • Deterritorialization of capital • Multiscalar regulatory systems and their impact on GPNs • Relationship of state to GPNs

  5. Actors within GPNs • Transnational corporations • Labour • Consumers • Global civil society organizations

  6. Geographical Clusters • The nature of geographical clusters • Generalized versus specialized • Formation • Structure • Territorial embeddedness • Networks • Geographical • Organizational

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