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 …

Accelerating processes of economic globalization have fundamentally reshaped the
organization of the global economy towards much greater integration and functional …

Before the 1980s, the mainstream Western prescription for developing countries to catch up
with the West assigned the state a leading role in governing the market. In the 1980s, this …

Designed to break with state‐centric approaches to understanding economic development,
global commodity chain, global value chain (GVC), and global production network (GPN) …

Developments in the area of 'precision agriculture'are creating new data points (about flows,
soils, pests, climate) that agricultural technology providers 'grab', aggregate, compute and/or …

Research on knowledge-based economies and innovation tends to focus on the highest-
ranked knowledge-advanced countries in the Global North and on high-growth countries in …

This paper rethinks the trajectories of regional development in an era of economic
globalization. It argues for a more dynamic perspective on regional development that must …

abstract Energy markets are an important contemporary site of economic globalization. In
this article we use a global production network (GPN) approach to examine the evolutionary …

This article aims to unpack and analyse the institutional and political dynamics of strategic
coupling from a host region perspective, adopting an actor-centred approach that focuses on …

This article focuses on the long‐term effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in less
developed regions (LDRs). It identifies different types and mechanisms of FDI in more …