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'Globalizing' regional development: a global production networks perspective
Authors:Neil M Coe,Martin Hess,Henry Wai-chung Yeung&dagger  ,Peter Dicken, Jeffrey Henderson&Dagger  
Affiliation:School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL email:; Department of Geography, National University of Singapore; Manchester Business School, and the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester
Abstract:Recent literature concerning regional development has placed significant emphasis on local institutional structures and their capacity to 'hold down' the global. Conversely, work on inter-firm networks – such as the global commodity chain approach – has highlighted the significance of the organizational structures of global firms' production systems and their relation to industrial upgrading. In this paper, drawing upon a global production networks perspective, we conceptualize the connections between 'globalizing' processes, as embodied in the production networks of transnational corporations, and regional development in specific territorial formations. We delimit the 'strategic coupling' of the global production networks of firms and regional economies which ultimately drives regional development through the processes of value creation, enhancement and capture. In doing so, we stress the multi-scalarity of the forces and processes underlying regional development, and thus do not privilege one particular geographical scale. By way of illustration, we introduce an example drawn from recent research into global production networks in East Asia and Europe. The example profiles the investments of car manufacturer BMW in Eastern Bavaria, Germany and Rayong, Thailand, and considers their implications for regional development.
Keywords:globalization    global production networks    regional development    Asia    Europe
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