Beyond strategic coupling: reassessing the firm-region nexus in global production networks

By D. Mackinnon. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Michaela Trippl
2. Henry S. C. Yeung
3. Arne Isaksen
4. Markus Grillitsch
5. Jirí Blazek
6. Franz Tödtling
7. G. Macleod
8. Neil M. Coe

In Strategy and Management

1. Michaela Trippl
2. Henry S. C. Yeung
3. Jirí Blazek
4. Neil M. Coe
5. S. Ponte
6. P. Pavlínek
7. J. Grabs
8. Markus Grillitsch

Citations in the corpus

• Rethinking Path Creation: A Geographical Political Economy Approach (2019, background): “Alternatively, if key actors are unable to effect such recoupling, initial path creation may mutate into path decay and dissolution through forms of decoupling linked to wider processes of economic restructuring and technological change (MacKinnon 2012; Werner 2018).”
• Regional industrial path development in different regional innovation systems: A conceptual analysis (2014, background): “Only recently, scholarly work has begun to explore the role of exogenous sources of regional growth and change (see, for instance, Boschma and Iammarino 2009; MacKinnon 2012).”
• Toward a Dynamic Theory of Global Production Networks (2015, background): “The peculiar combination of territorial outcomes arising from these processes remains an empirical question (Neilson and Pritchard 2009; Bair and Werner 2011; MacKinnon 2012; Bair et al. 2013; Horner 2013).”
• New directions for RIS studies and policies in the face of grand societal challenges (2021, background): “…that regions show varying endowments of key elements of RISs (see, for instance, Isaksen & Trippl, 2017) and that regions and their innovation systems differ markedly in the ways in which they are inserted into global production and innovation linkages (MacKinnon, 2012; Trippl et al., 2018).”
• Exogenously Led and Policy-Supported New Path Development in Peripheral Regions: Analytical and Synthetic Routes (2017, background): “The GPN approach, however, emphasizes that regions can become trapped into external networks controlled by powerful transnational companies (MacKinnon 2012).”
• Towards a typology of repositioning strategies of GVC/GPN suppliers: the case of functional upgrading and downgrading (2016, background): “A special form of upgrading strategy can comprise strategic coupling or even strategic decoupling and subsequent recoupling in case the detrimental effects of engagement in the GPN outweigh the contribution to value-creation (MacKinnon, 2012; Horner, 2013).”
• Trinity of change agency, regional development paths and opportunity spaces (2020, background): “, 2014) and, on the other hand, on the position of the region in global production and innovation networks (MacKinnon, 2012).”
• Exogenous sources of regional industrial change (2018, background): “Moreover, path dependencies in global production networks may generate lock-ins in peripheral regions (MacKinnon, 2012).”
• Integrating Finance into Global Production Networks (2014, background): “Consequently, regions need policies that enhance their position in existing GPNs, but they also need to be prepared for the possibility of decoupling between the GPN and the region, and to develop assets attractive to prospective GPNs for new rounds of strategic coupling (MACKINNON, 2012).”
• Advancing Evolutionary Economic Geography by Engaged Pluralism (2014, background): “Combining complementary theoretical perspectives, as has been recently done by MACKINNON (2012) linking global production networks, strategic coupling and EEG, underlines ‘engaged pluralism’ which is contrary to fragmented pluralism in economic geography (BARNES and SHEPPARD, 2010; CLARE and…”