1st Edition

Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia Production Networks, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship

Edited By Henry Wai-chung Yeung Copyright 2010
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Significant historical and geographical differences account for the many processes and trajectories of regional development in East Asia. These historical and geographical specificities in East Asia have prompted serious re-examination of existing theories in regional development, and in particular the "new regionalism" approach associated with such ideas as the learning region, institutional... Read more

1. Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia: Production Networks, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship - Henry Wai-chung Yeung

2. Situating Regional Development in the Competitive Dynamics of Global Production Networks: An East Asian Perspective - Henry Wai-chung Yeung (National University of Singapore)

Part One: Global production networks and regional development

3. Revisiting the Silicon Island? The Geographically Varied "Strategic Coupling" in the Development of High-technology Parks in Taiwan - You-ren Yang, Jinn-yuh Hsu, and Chia-ho Ching (National Taiwan University)

4. Strategic Coupling of Regional Development in Global Production Networks: Redistribution of Taiwan PC Investment from Pearl River Delta to Yangtze River Delta, China - Chun Yang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

5. Multinationals, Geographical Spillovers and Regional Development in Thailand - Suksawat Sajarattanochote and Jessie P.H. Poon (State University of New York, Buffalo)

6. From Global Production Networks to Global Reproduction Networks: Households, Migration and Regional Development in Cavite, Philippines - Philip F. Kelly (York University, Canada)

Part Two: Politics and entrepreneurship in regional development

7. Balanced Development in Globalizing Regional Development? Unpacking the New Regional Policy in South Korea - Yong-Sook Lee (Korea University)

8. Scaling Up Regional Development in Globalizing China: Local Capital Accumulation, Land-Centered Politics, and Reproduction of Space - George C.S. Lin (University of Hong Kong)

9. Globalizing Regional Development in Sunan, China: Does Suzhou Industrial Park Fit a Neo-Marshallian District Model?
Dennis Wei, Yuqi Lu, and Wen Chen (University of Utah, USA)

10. Clustering as anti-politics machine? Situating the politics of regional economic development and Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor - Josh Lepawsky (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)

11. Entrepreneurship and Regional Culture: The case of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, Japan  - Yuko Aoyama (Clark University, USA)

Biography

Henry Wai-chung Yeung is Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His books include Transnational Corporations and Business Networks and Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era (also published by Routledge). He is the editor of Environment and Planning A, Economic Geography, and Review of International Political Economy.