Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy (6th ed.). By Peter Dicken

By Jun Zhang. 2012

837 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. P. Pavlínek
2. Henry S. C. Yeung
3. Martin Hess
4. Neil M. Coe
5. Gary Gereffi
6. P. Dicken
7. S. Ponte
8. T. Sturgeon

In Political Science and International Relations

1. P. Pavlínek
2. Neil M. Coe
3. Gary Gereffi
4. Martin Hess
5. Henry S. C. Yeung
6. S. Ponte
7. P. Dicken
8. G. Bridge

Citations in the corpus

• Toward an integrated theory of multinational evolution: The evidence of Chinese multinational enterprises as latecomers (2007, background): “Despite the consensus that multinational enterprises (MNE) have been the primary driver behind the trend toward globalization (Dicken, 2007), the continuing debate over the uniqueness of multinational enterprise (MNE) from the developing countries is entering into a new phase in the context of…”
• Industrial Upgrading Through Foreign Direct Investment in Central European Automotive Manufacturing (2009, background): “The important feature of the contemporary global economy is the ability of TNCs to ‘slice up the value chain’ by breaking the production process into many geographically separated steps (Krugman, 1995; Dicken, 2007).”
• Advancing Evolutionary Economic Geography by Engaged Pluralism (2014, background): “This has helped counteract some of the narratives about hyperglobalisation that have come both from critics and supporters (DICKEN, 2007).”
• International human resource management in the 21st century: emerging themes and contemporary debates (2007, background): “…the most important single global shift of recent times has been the emergence of East Asia as a dynamic growth region, reflecting the spectacular recent growth rates achieved by the East Asian newly industrialising economies, as well as the rapid growth of the Chinese economy (Dicken, 2007).”
• Regulation and economic globalization: Prospects and limits of private governance (2010, background): “First, a substantial portion of global manufacturing production—and increasingly of services as well—has shifted from the developed to the developing world (Dicken, 2007).”
• Bringing it all back home? Backshoring of manufacturing activities and the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies (2019, background): “International expansion of multinational firms was fueled by labor arbitrage, a substantial lowering of import barriers for intermediate goods, lower cost of cargo transport, and the rapid development of ICTs which supported transborder communication and coordination (Dicken, 2014).”
• MNEs vertical linkages: The experience of Vietnam after Malaysia (2007, background): “Supply patterns in this industry differ from electronics/electrical, often as a result of the dominant roles played by major buyers (Dicken, 2007).”
• Global investments and regional development trajectories: the missing links (2016, background): “…enterprises (MNEs) as major ‘flagships’, or connectors, in global production networks (GPNs) (e.g., Coe, Hess, Yeung, Dicken, & Henderson, 2004, 2008; Dicken, 1994, 2003, 2007; Dicken & Henderson, 2003; Ernst & Kim, 2002; Henderson, Dicken, Hess, Coe, & Yeung, 2002; Hess & Yeung, 2006; Hobday,…”