|
Showing 1 - 6 of
6 matches in All Departments
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. This Advanced Introduction provides a comprehensive guide to
the vibrant and expanding global production network (GPN) approach.
Neil M. Coe deftly explores the antecedents and theoretical
underpinnings of GPN analysis, as well as debates and controversies
surrounding the approach and its position in wider
interdisciplinary discussions. He argues overall that, during a
time of profound ongoing challenges within the global economic
system, the need for a GPN framework has never been more pressing.
Key features include: an up-to-date assessment of current debates
in the literature an integrated perspective on how GPN thinking can
aid understanding of capitalist uneven development a wide range of
sectoral and geographical examples a thorough discussion of
connections to cognate debates in the wider social sciences and
business and management studies identification of future research
challenges in the field. In short, Advanced Introduction to Global
Production Networks is an ideal introductory book for students at
both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in geography, economics
and business looking to understand the organization and dynamics of
the global economy.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. This Advanced Introduction provides a comprehensive guide to
the vibrant and expanding global production network (GPN) approach.
Neil M. Coe deftly explores the antecedents and theoretical
underpinnings of GPN analysis, as well as debates and controversies
surrounding the approach and its position in wider
interdisciplinary discussions. He argues overall that, during a
time of profound ongoing challenges within the global economic
system, the need for a GPN framework has never been more pressing.
Key features include: an up-to-date assessment of current debates
in the literature an integrated perspective on how GPN thinking can
aid understanding of capitalist uneven development a wide range of
sectoral and geographical examples a thorough discussion of
connections to cognate debates in the wider social sciences and
business and management studies identification of future research
challenges in the field. In short, Advanced Introduction to Global
Production Networks is an ideal introductory book for students at
both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in geography, economics
and business looking to understand the organization and dynamics of
the global economy.
This path-breaking collection, edited by two leading scholars in
the field, brings together seminal contributions from the
burgeoning multidisciplinary literature on the globalization of
retailing. In addition to focusing on the retail corporations and
their expansionary strategies, it explores the multi-faceted
impacts of retail globalization on host economies and profiles the
store and sourcing dimensions of transnational retail
activity.These volumes are of particular interest to scholars in
management and business studies, economic geography, development
studies and economics, and more generally to all social scientists
interested in the transformative role of retailing within the
global economy.
There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization
of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form
of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the
structuring, organization and dynamics of global systems of
production and reproduction. The concept has a long heritage that
can be traced back to the 1970s and the contributions to this book
seek to develop further this emerging field. The book traces the
intellectual development of labour regime concepts across various
disciplines, notably political economy, development studies,
sociology and geography. Building on these foundations it considers
conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production
relating to issues of scale, informality, gender, race, social
reproduction, ecology and migration, and offers new insights into
the work conditions of global production chains from Amazon's
warehouses in the United States, to industrial production networks
in the Global South, and to the dormitory towns of migrant workers
in Czechia. It also explores recent mobilizations of labour regime
analysis in relation to methods, theory and research practice.
There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the theorization
of labour regimes in various disciplines. This has taken the form
of a concern to understand the role that labour regimes play in the
structuring, organization and dynamics of global systems of
production and reproduction. The concept has a long heritage that
can be traced back to the 1970s and the contributions to this book
seek to develop further this emerging field. The book traces the
intellectual development of labour regime concepts across various
disciplines, notably political economy, development studies,
sociology and geography. Building on these foundations it considers
conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production
relating to issues of scale, informality, gender, race, social
reproduction, ecology and migration, and offers new insights into
the work conditions of global production chains from Amazon's
warehouses in the United States, to industrial production networks
in the Global South, and to the dormitory towns of migrant workers
in Czechia. It also explores recent mobilizations of labour regime
analysis in relation to methods, theory and research practice.
Accelerating processes of economic globalization have fundamentally
reshaped the organization of the global economy towards much
greater integration and functional interdependence through
cross-border economic activity. In this interconnected world
system, a new form of economic organization has emerged: Global
Production Networks (GPNs). This brings together a wide array of
economic actors, most notably capitalist firms, state institutions,
labour unions, consumers and non-government organizations, in the
transnational production of economic value. National and
sub-national economic development in this highly interdependent
global economy can no longer be conceived of, and understood
within, the distinct territorial boundaries of individual countries
and regions. Instead, global production networks are organizational
platforms through which actors in these different national or
regional economies compete and cooperate for a larger share of the
creation, transformation, and capture of value through
transnational economic activity. They are also vehicles for
transferring the value captured between different places. This book
ultimately aims to develop a theory of global production networks
that explains economic development in the interconnected global
economy. While primarily theoretical in nature, it is well grounded
in cutting-edge empirical work in the parallel and highly impactful
strands of social science literature on the changing organization
of the global economy relating to global commodity chains (GCC),
global value chains (GVC), and global production networks (GPN).
|
You may like...
Midnights
Taylor Swift
CD
R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
Poldark: Series 1-2
Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson, …
Blu-ray disc
(1)
R55
Discovery Miles 550
|