Economic Globalization and Local Responses
This chapter traces the question of globalization and reviews the efforts from geographers to understand the spatiality of economic globalization. Specific efforts have been made to review four research areas, including transnational corporations, cross-b
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Economic Globalization and Local Responses Canfei He, Debin Du, Xin Tong, Fenghua Pan, Xiyan Mao, and Tianming Chen
Abstract
This chapter traces the question of globalization and reviews the efforts from geographers to understand the spatiality of economic globalization. Specific efforts have been made to review four research areas, including transnational corporations, cross-border flows, consequence of global-local interactions and local response to economic globalization. This chapter also highlights the contributions of Chinese scholars in globalization studies. As the speed-up of China’s integration into the globalization process, Chinese scholars are capable of offering more insights into cross-border economic activities, regional integration and global governance. Roadmap for future research is therefore depicted to embrace this trend. Keywords
Economic globalization Transnational corporation interaction Global production network
A total of 4243 SCI/SSCI-indexed articles are analyzed in the research area of economic globalization and local responses. Articles were identified from 52 international journals from 2000 to 2014. The number of journals that have published more than 15 of the relevant articles is 52 (Appendix I). The search query is as follows: (“globalization” OR “multinational corporation” OR “transnational corporation” OR “global pipeline” OR “global finance” OR “global production network” OR “global value chain” OR “global commodity chain” OR “international spillovers” OR “global R&D” OR “multinational R&D” OR “foreign investment” OR “foreign direct investment” OR “international trade” OR “international migration” OR “multinational community” OR “transnational community” OR “global city network” OR “service globalization” OR “world city region” OR “glocalization” OR “global-local” OR “global governance” OR “world city” OR “global city” OR “global pipeline”OR “local buzz”).
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Overview Development of Research Questions
The development of new telecommunications and transportation technologies has allowed producers located in different countries and often with different ownership structures to form cross-border production networks, resulting in the “new international division of labor” largely organized by transnational corporations. Specialized “production blocks” are coordinated through service links, which include not only activities such as transportation, insurance, telecommunications, quality control, and management specifications, but also flows of capital, labor, knowledge, intermediate inputs and finished products. The emergence of new international organizations and regimes (WTO, World Bank, IMF and International Labor Organization) that establish rules and norms for the global community also
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