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Production and R&D networks of foreign ventures in China: Implications for technological dynamism and regional development
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The authors analyzes the nature of FDI local networks in production and RD local embeddedness is limited by a series of technological, institutional, spatial, and structural mismatches, and more efforts are still needed to better integrate FDI with local economies and strengthen China's local innovative capacities.About:
This article is published in Applied Geography.The article was published on 2012-01-01. It has received 72 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foreign direct investment & Dynamism.read more
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Restructuring the export-oriented industrialization in the Pearl River Delta, China: Institutional evolution and emerging tension
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the prevailed institutions conducive for the export-oriented processing have evolved into institutional inertia and territorial embeddedness as obstacles for the on-going restructuring, particularly the market reorientation from export to domestic sale.
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Regional development in the global economy: A dynamic perspective of strategic coupling in global production networks
TL;DR: In this article, a dynamic perspective of strategic coupling is further developed and reconstructed to demonstrate how regional development can result from the interaction effects of these regional assets and global value chains logics.
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Globalization, industrial restructuring, and regional development in China
Y.H. Dennis Wei,Ingo Liefner +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of the literature on globalization, industrial restructuring and regional development is presented, highlighting the important role of institutions and global-local interactions in industrial and local interactions.
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Global cities with Chinese characteristics
TL;DR: The recent ascendancy of places like Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou raises questions about the global city formation practices that have led to this apparent success and to questions about social consequences of achieving global city status in the context of the rapidly developing transitional Chinese economy as mentioned in this paper.
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Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy.
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Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation
TL;DR: In this paper, a distinction is made between the learning processes taking place among actors embedded in a community by just being there dubbed buzz and the knowledge attained by investing in building channels of communication called pipelines to selected providers located outside the local milieu.
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‘Globalizing’ regional development: a global production networks perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the strategic coupling of the global production networks of transnational corporations and regional economies which ultimately drives regional development through the processes of value creation, enhancement and capture.
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'Spatial' Relationships? Towards a reconceptualization of embeddedness
TL;DR: The concept of embeddedness has gained much prominence in economic geography over the last decade, as much work has been done on the social and organizational foundations of economic activities and regional development.
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Multinational enterprises, technology diffusion, and host country productivity growth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated US multinational enterprises (MNEs) as a channel of international technology diffusion in 40 countries from 1966 to 1994 and found that the technology transfer provided by US MNEs contributes to the productivity growth in DCs but not in LDCs.