Global shift : mapping the changing contours of the world economy /: mapping the changing contours of the world economy. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Dicken.
• Other Names: Dicken, Peter
• Contents: Introduction: Questioning Globalization; What in the World Is Going on?; Conflicting Perspectives on 'Globalization'; Grounding 'Globalization': Geography Really Does Matter; PART ONE: THE SHIFTING CONTOURS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY; Global Shift: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy; What's New?The Imprint of Past Geographies; Roller-Coasters and Interconnections; The Changing Contours of the Global Economic Map: Global Shifts in Production, Trade and FDI; The Dynamic Global Economic Map; PART TWO: PROCESSES OF GLOBAL SHIFT; Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy; An Analytical Point of Entry; Institutional Macrostructures of the Global Economy; Global Production Networks; Even in a Globalizing World, Economic Activities Are Geographically Localized; Networks of Networks; Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction'; Technology and Economic Transformation; Processes of Technological Change: An Evolutionary Perspective; Time-Space Shrinking Technologies; Technological Innovations in Products and Processes; Geographies of Innovation; Transnational Corporations: The Primary 'Movers and Shapers' of the Global Economy; 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; The Myth of the 'Global' Corporation; The State Really Does Matter; 'The State Is Dead' - Oh No It Isn't!; States as Containers; States as Regulators; States as Competitors; States as Collaborators; The Uneasy Relationship between TNCs and States: Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration; The Ties That Bind; Bargaining Processes between TNCs and States; PART THREE: THE PICTURE IN DIFFERENT ECONOMIC SECTORS; 'Making Holes in the Ground': The Extractive Industries; Beginning at the Beginning; Production Circuits in the Extractive Industries; Global Shifts in the Extractive Industries; Volatile Demand; Technologies of Exploring, Extracting, Refining, Distributing; The Centrality of State Involvement in the Extractive Industries; Corporate Strategies in the Extractive Industries; Resources, Reserves and Futures; 'We Are What We Eat': The Agro-Food Industries; Transformation of the Food Economy: The 'Local' Becomes 'Global'; Agro-Food Production Circuits; Global Shifts in the Agro-Food Industries; Consumer Choices - and Consumer Resistances; Transforming Technologies in Agro-Food Production; The Role of the State; Corporate Strategies in the Agro-Food Industries; 'Fabric-ating Fashion': The Clothing Industries; Changing Rules; The Clothing Production Circuit; Global Shifts in the Clothing Industries; Changing Patterns of Consumption; Production Costs and Technology; The Role of the State and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement; Corporate Strategies in the Clothing Industries; Regionalizing Production Networks in the Clothing Industries; 'Wheels of Change': The Automobile Industry; All Change?; The Automobile Production Circuit; Global Shifts in Automobile Production and Trade; Changing Patterns of Consumption; Technological Change in the Automobile Industry; The Role of the State; Corporate Strategies in the Automobile Industry; Regionalizing Production Networks in the Automobile Industry; 'Making the World Go Round': Advanced Business Services - Especially Finance; The Centrality of Advanced Business Services; The Structure of Advanced Business Services; Dynamics of the Markets for Advanced Business Services; Technological Innovation and Advanced Business Services; The Role of the State: Regulation, De-Regulation, Re-Regulation; Corporate Strategies in Advanced Business Services; Geographies of Advanced Business Services; 'Making the Connections, Moving the Goods': Logistics and Distribution Services; Taking Distribution for Granted; The Structure of Logistics and Distribution Services; The Dynamics of the Market for Logistics Services; Technological Innovation and Logistics and Distribution Services; The Role of the State: Regulation and Deregulation of Logistics and Distribution Services; Corporate Strategies in Logistics and Distribution Services; Logistics 'Places': Key Geographical Nodes on the Global Logistics Map; PART FOUR: WINNING AND LOSING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY; 'Capturing Value' within Global Production Networks; Placing Places in GPNs; Creating, Enhancing and Capturing Value in GPNs; Upgrading (or Downgrading) of Local Economies within GPNs; 'Destroying Value': Environmental Impacts of Global Production Networks; Production-Distribution-Consumption as a System of Materials Flows and Balances; Disturbing the Delicate Balance of Life on Earth: Damaging the Earth's Atmosphere; Fouling the Nest: Creating and Disposing of Waste; Winning and Losing: Where You Live Really Matters; Location Matters; Incomes and Poverty; Where Will the Jobs Come From?; Populations on the Move; Making the World a Better Place; Global Shifts: Pasts and Futures; 'The Best of All Possible Worlds'?; TNCs and Corporate Social Responsibility; States and Issues of Global Governance; A Better World;
• Edition: 6th ed
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (632 pages)
• Subjects: 338.0904; Industries -- History -- 20th century; International economic relations; Economic history -- 20th century; Economic geography; Globalization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781473903807; 1473903807
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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