Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia : Production Networks, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship

ISBN-13: 9780415560535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 208 str.

Dr Henry Wai-Chung Yeung

Opis

Examines how high growth regions in East Asia are effectively plugged into the global economy via complex production networks and strategic policy initiatives.

Spis treści

1. Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia: Production Networks, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship  2. Situating Regional Development in the Competitive Dynamics of Global Production Networks: An East Asian Perspective  Part One: Global production networks and regional development  3. Revisiting the Silicon Island? The Geographically Varied "Strategic Coupling" in the Development of High-technology Parks in Taiwan  4. Strategic Coupling of Regional Development in Global Production Networks: Redistribution of Taiwan PC Investment from Pearl River Delta to Yangtze River Delta, China  5. Multinationals, Geographical Spillovers and Regional Development in Thailand  6. From Global Production Networks to Global Reproduction Networks: Households, Migration and Regional Development in Cavite, Philippines Part Two: Politics and entrepreneurship in regional development 7. Balanced Development in Globalizing Regional Development? Unpacking the New Regional Policy in South Korea  8. Scaling Up Regional Development in Globalizing China: Local Capital Accumulation, Land-Centered Politics, and Reproduction of Space  9. Globalizing Regional Development in Sunan, China: Does Suzhou Industrial Park Fit a Neo-Marshallian District Model?  10. Clustering as anti-politics machine? Situating the politics of regional economic development and Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor  11. Entrepreneurship and Regional Culture: The case of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, Japan

O autorze

Henry Wai-chung Yeung is Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His books include Transnational Corporations and Business Networks and Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era (also published by Routledge). He is the editor of Environment and Planning A, Economic Geography, and Review of International Political Economy.