Regional development in the global economy: A dynamic perspective of strategic coupling in global production networks

By Henry S. C. Yeung. 2015

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This paper rethinks the trajectories of regional development in an era of economic globalization. It argues for a more dynamic perspective on regional development that must incorporate both endogenous regional assets and strategic imperatives in global industries. Premised on theoretical advances in research into global production networks (GPNs) and global value chains (GVCs), a dynamic perspective of strategic coupling is further developed and reconstructed in this paper to demonstrate how regional development can result from the interaction effects of these regional assets and GPN logics. This perspective also points to different modes of strategic coupling for understanding the changing pathways of regional development. Several key issues for regional policy and practice are outlined to substantiate this call for a shift towards a dynamic and multi-scalar view of regional development in today's global economy.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Jirí Blazek
2. Michaela Trippl
3. Henry S. C. Yeung
4. Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer
5. V. Květoň
6. Arne Isaksen
7. Franz Tödtling
8. R. Hassink

In Plant Science

1. Jirí Blazek
2. Michaela Trippl
3. Henry S. C. Yeung
4. Jennifer Bair
5. B. Selwyn

In Strategy and Management

1. Jirí Blazek
2. Michaela Trippl
3. Henry S. C. Yeung
4. Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer
5. V. Květoň
6. Neil M. Coe
7. Jennifer Bair
8. Gary Gereffi

Citations in the corpus

• Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks (2020, background): “In what is generally known as the GPN perspective (Coe et al., 2004, 2008; Coe & Yeung, 2015, 2019; Yeung, 2009a, 2018a), geographers have conceptualized REGIONAL STUDIES the spatial connections between ‘globalizing’ processes, as embodied in geographically dispersed production networks coordinated…”
• The dark side of regional industrial path development: towards a typology of trajectories of decline (2019, background): “…has also sparked interest in the question of how ‘strategic coupling’ between regional assets on the one hand and the needs of multinational companies orchestrating global production networks (GPNs) on the other hand is taking place in different spatial contexts (see MacKinnon, 2012; Yeung, 2016).”