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Global production networks: mapping recent conceptual developments

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Coe, Neil M, Yeung, Henry Wai-chung·2019·Journal of Economic Geography
DOI 10.1093/jeg/lbz018
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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 core aim of the special issue to push for new conceptual advances, the paper focuses on the central elements of GPN theory to showcase recent rethinking related to the delimiting of global production networks, underlying political-economic drivers, actor-specific strategies and regional/national development outcomes. We suggest that the analytical purchase of this recent work is greater in research that has continued to keep a tight focus on the causal links between the organizational configurations of global production networks and uneven development. Concomitantly, considerable effort in the literature has gone into expanding the remit of GPN research in different directions, and we thus engage with five domains or ‘constituent outsides’ that relate to the state, finance, labour, environment and development. We believe such cross-domain fertilisation can help realize GPN 2.0’s potential for explaining uneven development in an interconnected world economy.

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  • The role of the state can significantly shape the organization and evolution of GVCs over time.

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Authors
Coe, N. M., & Yeung, H. W.-C.
Affiliations
National University of Singapore (SG)
Corresponding author
Coe, Neil M
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Economic Geography
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2019-07-01
Volume
19
Issue
4
Pages
775-801
ISSN
  • 1468-2702 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-2710
DOI
10.1093/jeg/lbz018
OpenAlex
W2956707229
Cited by
386
References
172
Citations by year
2026: 57 · 2025: 58 · 2024: 39 · 2023: 65 · 2022: 59 · 2021: 70 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 6
FWCI
64.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Journal of Economic Geography (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › World Systems and Global Transformations
  • Social Sciences › Development › Regional Development and Innovation
Keywords
global production networks, uneven development, political economy of production, actor strategies, state, labour, environment, global economy

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