Geographical Dynamics and Firm Spatial Strategy in China /

This book offers the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics currently restructuring China s export-oriented industries. The topics covered are relevant to post-socialist geography, development studies, economics, economic sociology and international studies. It offers academics,...

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Main Authors: Zhu, Shengjun
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Pickles, John; He, Canfei
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Berlin, Heidelberg :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Springer Geography,
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53601-8
Summary: This book offers the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics currently restructuring China s export-oriented industries. The topics covered are relevant to post-socialist geography, development studies, economics, economic sociology and international studies. It offers academics, international researchers, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in these fields an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in developing countries and emerging economies. It
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(X,206pages): illustrations.
ISBN: 9783662536018
Index Number: HF1021
CLC: F119.9
Contents: Introduction -- Bring In, Go Up, Go West, Go Out: Upgrading, Regionalization and Delocalization in China s Apparel Production Networks -- Geographical Dynamics and Industrial Relocation: Spatial Strategies of Apparel Firms in Ningbo, China -- Global, Regional and Local: New Firm Formation and Spatial Restructuring in China s Apparel Industry -- Turkishization of a Chinese Apparel Firm: Fast Fashion, Regionalization, and the Shift from Global Supplier to New End Markets -- Institutional embeddedness and regional adaptability and rigidity in a Chinese apparel cluster -- Global and local govern