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TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE WORLD ECONOMY: CHAINS AND NETWORKS

Introduction

@ Coe, N., Hess, M., Yeung, H. W.-C., Dicken, P. & Henderson, J. (2004): "‘Globalizing‘ regional development: a global production networks perspective".  Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29:468-484. (17p.)

BOOK: Coe, N. & Yeung H.W-C. (2015): Global production networks. Theorizing economic developments in an interconnected world. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1-80. (80p.)

@ Gereffi, G. & Lee, J. (2016): “Economic and social upgrading in global value chains and industrial clusters: why governance matters”. Journal of Business Ethics 133: 25-38. DOI 10.1007/s10551-014-2373-7. (13s.) DOI 10.1007/s10551-014-2373-7. (13p.)

@ Ivarsson, I. & Alvstam, C.G. (2011): “Upgrading in global value chains: a case study of technology-learning among IKEA-suppliers in China and Southeast Asia”. Journal of Economic Geography 11: 731-552. (22p.)

@Kleibert, J. (2016): “On the global city nap, but not in command?.Probing Manila’s position in the world city network”. Environment and Planning A, 49(2), 2897-2915. (18p.)

*Neilson, J. & Pritchard, W. E. (2009): Value chain struggles: institutions and governance in the plantation districts of South India. Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 2, Part two, 37-47. (10p.)

BOOK: Newsome, K., Taylor, P., Bair, J. & Rainnie, A.( 2015): Putting labour in its place. Labour process analysis in global value chains. Palgrave, London, 1-26. (26p.)

186p.

A shift towards the East and the South 

@ Bull, B. (2015): “'The ‘rise of the rest’ and the revenge of ‘development’ in the emerging economies and shifts in development theory”. In  Hansen, A. and Wethal. U. (eds) Emerging economies and challenges to sustainability. Theories, strategies, local realities, kap.2 pp 19-33. (14p.) (e-book)

@Gereffi, G. (2014): “Global value chains in a post-Washington consensus world”. Review of International Political Economy 21: 9-37. (29p).

@Gray. K. &  Gills, B. K. (2016) South–South cooperation and the rise of the Global South, Third World Quarterly, 37:4, 557-574. (17p.)

@Kaplinsky, R. & Farooki, M. (2010): " Global value chains, the crisis, and the shift of markets from North to South" in C Cattaneo, O., Gereffi, G. & Staritz, C (eds.) Global value chains in a post-crisis world. Washington DC: The World Bank, 125-153. (28s.)

@ Mawdsley, E. 2017. “Development geography 1: Cooperation, competition and convergence between ‘North’ and ‘South’”. Progress in Human Geography 41 (1), 108-117. (9p.)

96p.

Scales and networks

@ Marston, S. A., Jones, J. P., & Woodward, K. (2005): “Human geography without scale”. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30(4), 416-432. (16p.)

@ Jonas, A. E. (2006): “Pro scale: further reflections on the ‘scale debate in human geography”. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31(3), 399-406 (7p.)

@ MacKinnon, D. (2011):” Reconstructing scale: Towards a new scalar politics”. Progress in Human Geography, 35(1), 21-36. (15 pages)

@ Dicken, P., Kelly, P. F., Olds, K., & Wai‐Chung Yeung, H. (2001): ”Chains and networks, territories and scales: towards a relational framework for analysing the global economy”. Global Networks, 1(2), 89-112. (23p.)

61p.

Embeddedness, institutions and power

@Hess, M. (2004): "Spatial relationships? Towards a reconceptualization of embeddedness”. Progress in Human Geography 28: 165-86. (21p.)

@Horner, R.(2016): “Beyond facilitator? State roles in global value chains and global production networks”. Geography Compass, 11 (2), 1-13. (13p.)

@Juuse, E., S.B. Endresen & Kattel, R. (2012): "Foreign direct investment in Estonia. Understanding foreign competition and local embeddedness in the food retail industry." Paper to the International Geographical Union (IGU) conference "Innovation and Creativity in Emerging Economic Spaces: Local Entrepreneurship and Transnational Corporations." Jagiellonian University, Kraków 3rd-5th May. (20p.) Copy see Canvas

@Kiil, M.B. & Knutsen, H.M. (2016): Agency by exit. Swedish nurses and the "Not below 24,000" movement. Geoforum 70. (10p.)

@Knutsen, H.M. (2003): "Black entrepreneurs, local embeddedness and regional economic development in Northern Namibia" i Journal of Modern African Studies 41: 555-586. (31p.)

*Neilson, J. & Pritchard, W. E. (2009): Value chain struggles: institutions and governance in the plantation districts of South India. Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 2, Part three, 47-57. (10p.)

105p.

Local linkages and value capture in the global South: examples from the construction industry

@ Chen, C., Goldstein, A. & Orr, R.J. (2009): “Local Operations of Chinese Construction Firms in Africa: An Empirical Survey”. International Journal of Construction Management, 9:2, 75-89. (14p.)

@ Wethal, U. (2018): “Beyond the China factor: Challenges to backward linkages in the Mozambican construction sector”. Journal of Modern African Studies, 56 (2). (30p).
 

@ Wethal, U. (2017): “Workplace regimes in Sino-Mozambican construction projects: resentment and tension in a divided workplace”. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 35:3, 383-403. (20p.)

 64p

Innovation systems and technological change

*Asheim, B. T., Ebersberger, B., & Herstad, S. (2012): "MNCs between the global and the local: Knowledge bases, proximity and globally distributed knowledge networks" in M. Heidenreich (Ed.), Innovation and Institutional Embeddedness of Multinational Companies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 77-104. (28s)

@S?ther, B. (2013): Socio-economic Unity in the Evolution of an Agricultural Cluster. European Planning Studies. DOI:10.1080/09654313.2013.849228. (14s), 22(12): 2605-2619

*Wicken, O.(2009): The layers of national innovation systems: The historical evolution of a national innovation system in Norway. In Fagerberg, J., Mowery, D.C. og Verspagen, B. (eg.) Innovation, Path Dependence and Policy. Oxford University Press. (28s.)

92s.

Workers in chains and networks

BOOK: Anner, M. (2015). "Social downgrading and worker resistance in apparel Global Value Chains". In Newsome, K., Taylor, P., Bair, J. and A. Rainnie (eds), Putting labour in its place: Labour process analysis and Global Value Chains, Palgrave, London: 152-170. (18p.)

@Riisgaard, L. and Hammer, N. (2011): "Prospects for Labour in Global Value Chains: Labour Standards in the Cut Flower and Banana Industries". British Journal of Industrial Relations 49 (1): 168-190. (23p.) 

*Selwyn, B (2012): Chapter 3: "Grape workers: Structural power and associational power". In: Selwyn, B. Workers, state and development in Brazil: Powers of labour, chains of value. Manchester University Press. 77-107. (30p.)

BOOK: Taylor, P., Newsome, K., Bair, J. and Rainnie, A. (2015): "Putting labour in its place: Labour process analysis and global value chains". In Newsome, K., Taylor, P., Bair, J. and A. Rainnie (eds), Putting labour in its place: Labour process analysis and Global Value Chains, Palgrave, London: 152-170. (18p.)

89p.

The physical environment in chains and networks

@Bridge, G. (2008): "Global production networks and the extractive sector: governing resource-based development". Journal of Economic Geography 8(3): 389-419. (30p.) 

@Knutsen, H.M. (2000): "Environmental practice in the commodity chain: the dyestuff and tanning industries compared". International Review of Political Economy, 7: 254-288.(35p.)

BOOK: Rainnie, A., Herod, A., Mc-Graht-Champ, S. & Pickern, G. (2015): "Wasted commodities, wasted labour? Global production and destruction networks and the nature of contemporary capitalism". In Newsome, K., Taylor, P., Bair, J. & Rainnie (eds), Putting labour in its place. Labour process analysis in global value chains. Palgrave, London: 249-265. (16p.)

81p.

Total 774p. 

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