Henry Wai-chung Yeung

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework for the analysis of economic integration and its relation to the asymmetries of economic and social development, which is more adequate to the exigencies and consequences of globalization than has traditionally been the case in development studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the strategic coupling of the global production networks of transnational corporations and regional economies which ultimately drives regional development through the processes of value creation, enhancement and capture.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that any understanding of the global economy must be sensitive to four considerations: (a) conceptual categories and labels carry with them the dis- cursive power to shape material processes; (b) multiple scales of analysis must be incorporated in recognition of the contemporary'relativization of scale'; (c) no single institutional or organizational locus of analysis should be privileged; and (d) extrapolations from specific case studies and instances must be treated with caution.

TL;DR: The authors argue that much of the work in this relational turn is relational only in a thematic sense, focusing on various themes of socio-spatial relations without theorizing sufficiently the nature of relationality and its manifestation through power relations and actor-specific practice.

TL;DR: In this article, a theory of global production networks is developed to explain economic development in the interconnected global economy, which 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, and global production network (GPN).