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

Social coordination and affordance perception always take part in concrete situations in real
life. Nonetheless, the different fields of ecological psychology studying these phenomena do …

Decisions made by businesses on where to locate or relocate are typically given less
consideration than residential location in integrated transport and land use modelling …

The coming fourth industrial revolution means many inevitable changes in firms' competition
and the challenges they pose to industrial and competition policies. Therefore, to examine …

This paper investigates the impacts of offshore and onshore outsourcing on China's
upgrading in global value chains (GVCs). First, based on Antràs and Chor (2018) and Wang …

In this book we argue that organizationally fragmented and spatially dispersed production
networks constitute a new form of economic structure that increasingly drives the complex …

This paper analyzes the process of related diversification at the regional level in two
emerging countries: Brazil and Mexico. It claims that apart from regional available …

Firms that offshore final production should oppose trade barriers “protecting” their own
industry. This pits them against onshore firms, especially when comparative disadvantage is …

Rapid economic growth in some emerging economies in recent decades has significantly
increased their global economic importance. If this rapid growth continues and is strongest …

Rapid economic growth in Asia (and some other emerging economies) has been shifting the
global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the …