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mods: Global shift mapping the changing contours of the world economy Dicken, Peter creator author. ProQuest (Firm) text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2015 2015 Seventh edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource. Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; Praise for Global Shift; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Preface to the Seventh Edition; About the Companion Website; One. What in the World Is Going On? ; The End of the World as We Knew It; Conflicting Perspectives of 'Globalization'; Grounding Globalization: Geography Really Does Matter; Part I. The Changing Contours of the Global Economy; Two. The Centre of Gravity Shifts: Transforming the Geographies of the Global Economy; The Importance of Taking a Long View: The Imprint of Past Geographies; Roller-Coasters and Interconnections. Global Shifts: The Changing Contours of The Global Economic MapThe centre of Gravity Has Shifted; Part II. Processes of Global Shift; Three. Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy; Connections, Connections ; Institutional Macro-Structures of the Global Economy; Global Production Networks; Even in a Globalizing World, Economic Activities Are Geographically Localized; Networks of Networks; Four. Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction'; Technology and Economic Transformation; Processes of Technological Change: An Evolutionary Perspective. Time-Space Shrinking TechnologiesTechnological Innovations in Products, Production Systems and Organizational Forms; Geographies of Innovation; Five. Transnational Corporations: The Primary `Movers and Shapers' of the Global Economy; The Myth of the `Global' Corporation; Why Firms Transnationalize; How Firms Transnationalize; TNCs as `Networks within Networks'; Configuring the TNCs' Internal Networks; TNCs within Networks of Externalized Relationships; Perpetual Change: Reshaping TNCs' Internal and External Networks; Six. The State Really Does Matter; `The State Is Dead' -- Oh No It Isn't! States as Co…