Journal
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 227-245Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbr009
Keywords
Global production networks; strategic coupling; regional development; evolutionary economic geography; path dependence
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Global Production Networks (GPNs) have become a key focus of research in economic geography and related fields in recent years. This article has two main aims. First, I offer a critical appraisal of GPN research, focusing on its contribution to the rethinking of regional development processes and the notion of 'strategic coupling' in particular. Second, the article aims to forge a new set of links between GPNs and evolutionary economic geography (EEG), which has also attracted considerable recent interest as a framework for assessing the evolution of economic landscapes. In particular, I use evolutionary approaches and the concept of path dependence to develop a broader and deeper conception of the range of coupling, recoupling and decoupling processes that take place between regions and GPNs, going beyond strategic coupling per se.
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