Global production networks: mapping recent conceptual developments

By Neil M. Coe, Henry S. C. Yeung. Journal of Economic Geography, 2019

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In this framing paper for the special issue, we map significant research on global production networks during the past decade in economic geography and adjacent fields. In line with the core aim of the special issue to push for new conceptual advances, the paper focuses on the central elements of GPN theory to showcase recent rethinking related to the delimiting of global production networks, underlying political-economic drivers, actor-specific strategies and regional/national development outcomes. We suggest that the analytical purchase of this recent work is greater in research that has continued to keep a tight focus on the causal links between the organizational configurations of global production networks and uneven development. Concomitantly, considerable effort in the literature has gone into expanding the remit of GPN research in different directions, and we thus engage with five domains or ‘constituent outsides’ that relate to the state, finance, labour, environment and development. We believe such cross-domain fertilisation can help realize GPN 2.0’s potential for explaining uneven development in an interconnected world economy.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Henry S. C. Yeung
2. Torben Pedersen
3. Gary Gereffi
4. Pavida Pananond
5. Jennifer Bair
6. Neil M. Coe
7. Khalid Nadvi
8. Martin Hess

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Gary Gereffi
2. Torben Pedersen
3. Pavida Pananond
4. Henry S. C. Yeung
5. Neil M. Coe
6. Jennifer Bair
7. Martin Hess
8. P. Pavlínek

In Strategy and Management

1. Henry S. C. Yeung
2. Torben Pedersen
3. Gary Gereffi
4. Pavida Pananond
5. Jennifer Bair
6. Neil M. Coe
7. S. Ponte
8. P. Pavlínek

Citations in the corpus

• An integrative typology of global strategy and global value chains: The management and organization of cross‐border activities (2020, background): “Additionally, the role of extra-MNE actors that are nonfirm institutions like state agencies and non-governmental organizations, is also instrumental in shaping GVC relationships and power dynamics (see Coe & Yeung, 2015, 2019; Hendersen, Dicken, Hess, Coe, & Yeung, 2002; Yeung, 2016).”
• 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…”