Global shift : mapping the changing contours of the world economy /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
The Guilford Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | Seventh edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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 ContainersStates as Regulators; States as Collaborators ; Part III. Winning and Losing in the Global Economy; Seven. The Uneasy Relationship between Transnational Corporations and States: Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration ; The Ties That Bind; Bargaining Processes between TNCs and States; Eight. `Capturing Value' within Global Production Networks ; Placing Places in GPNs; Creating and Enhancing and capturing Value in GPNs; Upgrading (or Downgrading) of Local Economies within GPNs ; Nine. Destroying Value?: Environmental Impacts of Global Production Networks.
- Production-Distribution-Consumption as a System of Materials Flows and BalancesDisturbing the Delicate Balance of Life on Earth: Damaging the Earth's Atmosphere; Fouling the Nest: Creating, Disposing and Recycling Waste; Ten. Winning and Losing: Where You Live Really Matters ; Location Matters; Incomes and Poverty; Where Will the Jobs Come From? ; Populations on the Move; Eleven. Making the World a Better Place; `The Best of All Possible Worlds'?; TNCs and Corporate Social Responsibility; States and Issues of Global Governance ; A Better World?; Part IV. The Picture in Different Sectors.