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Journal of Economic Geography 2008 8(3):267-269; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbn006
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Introduction: global production networks—debates and challenges

Neil M. Coe*, Peter Dicken and Martin Hess

*Geography, School of Environment and Development, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. email < neil.coe@manchester.ac.uk>

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Over the last decade-and-a-half, a rich and vibrant literature has evolved that attempts to explain how global industries are organized and governed, and how, in turn, those relationships affect the development and upgrading opportunities of the various regions and firms involved. Although this is a sprawling multi-disciplinary field of endeavour, to date, three key interlinked strands of research can be distinguished:

  • The global commodity chain (GCC) framework, first elaborated in the volume edited by Gereffi and Korzeniewicz (1994). Initially, stemming from a relatively structuralist world systems perspective, ‘GCC analysis is principally concerned with understanding how global industries are organized. It consists of identifying the full set of actors (i.e. firms) that are . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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