scholarly journals Filtering strategic coupling: territorial intermediaries in oil and gas global production networks in Southeast Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moritz Breul ◽  
Javier Revilla Diez ◽  
Maxensius Tri Sambodo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Network

Abstract The Global Production Network (GPN) approach has not yet considered the importance of territorial intermediaries for strategic coupling. This article demonstrates how the prospects of strategic coupling for the case of Vietnam and Indonesia with the oil and gas GPN are affected by the gateway role of Singapore. Based on interviews, the analysis reveals how Singapore influences regional economic development along the GPN through different filtering mechanisms, limiting the potential for strategic coupling for Vietnam and Indonesia. For GPN research, the identified filtering mechanisms illustrate how the territoriality of GPNs contributes to differentiated territorial outcomes. The findings therefore indicate the need to intensify the appreciation of the particular territorial configuration of GPNs as this yields considerable explanatory power for understanding the unequal contours of the global economy.

The Role of Oil and Gas in the Economic Development of the Global Economy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Oil And Gas Producers ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Factor Inputs ◽  
The Impact

This chapter is concerned with the role of oil and gas in the economic development of the global economy. It focuses on the context in which established and newer oil and gas producers in developing countries must frame their policies to optimize the benefits of such resources. It outlines a history of the issue over the last twenty-five years. It considers oil and gas as factor inputs, their role in global trade, the role of oil prices in the macroeconomy and the impact of the geopolitics of oil and gas. It then considers various conventional views of the future of oil and gas in the primary energy mix. Finally, it challenges the drivers behind these conventional views of the future with an emphasis on why they may prove to be different from what is expected and how this may change the context in which producers must frame their policy responses.

The Invisible Networks of Global Production: Re-Imagining the Global Value Chain in Legal Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-117
Author(s):  
Anna Beckers
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Commodity Chain ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Global Production Network

AbstractReviewing the burgeoning legal scholarship on global value chains to delineate the legal image of the global value chain and then comparing this legal image with images on global production in neighbouring social sciences research, in particular the Global Commodity Chain/Global Value Chain and the Global Production Network approach, this article reveals that legal research strongly aligns with the value chain image, but takes less account of the production-centric network image. The article then outlines a research agenda for legal research that departs from a network perspective on global production. To that end, it proposes that re-imagining the law in a world of global production networks requires a focus in legal research on the legal construction of global production and its infrastructure and a stronger contextualization of governance obligations and liability rules in the light of the issue-specific legal rules that apply to said infrastructure.

Global Production Networks and (Distributional) Regional Development: The Cinnamon Industry in Karandeniya and Matale, Sri Lanka

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-237
Author(s):  
Eunyeong Song ◽  
Douglas R. Gress ◽  
Edo Andriesse
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Exporting Firms ◽  
Global Production Network ◽  
Developmental Dynamics

The purpose of this article is to examine the multi-spatial and developmental dynamics of the cinnamon industry in Sri Lanka, the largest exporter in the world by value added. This contribution compares Karandeniya, a major traditional cultivating hub, and Matale, a region new to cinnamon cultivation, deploying a Global Production Network (GPN) framework inclusive of regional development considerations. Analyses, based on input from 23 semi-structured, in-depth interviews, examine the potential for all stakeholders to acquire equity or ‘how’ captured value influences the region ‘and’ individual actors over the course of development. Fieldwork reveals four upstream actors in the cinnamon industry, namely—farmers, peelers, collectors and exporting firms. Results indicate that the cinnamon boom led to strategic decoupling with the exporting firms in Colombo and subsequent strategic recoupling with other actors. The primary contribution of the research rests in the interpretation of resulting structural changes in each region from a bifurcated view of regional development. Based on regional economic growth, Karandeniya appears to be more successful. However, considering the extent of value distribution within the region, Matale is on a more inclusive trajectory vis-à-vis cinnamon exports. Based on these results, three implications for GPN theory and related development policy are suggested.

scholarly journals The powers of a social auditor in a global production network: the case of Verité and the exposure of forced labour in the electronics industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 653-678
Author(s):  
Gale Raj-Reichert
Keyword(s):  
Electronics Industry ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
Credible Information ◽  
Global Production Network

Abstract Research on labour governance actors in global production networks (GPNs) has been limited to civil society organisations, firms and governments. Understanding the influence of actors in GPNs has been dealt with singular and overt modes of relational power. This paper contributes to both debates by examining an intermediary actor—the social auditing organisation Verité—and its exercise of multiple modes of overt and covert powers to illustrate the complex terrain of change in GPNs. Verité, whose exposure of forced labour in Malaysian electronics subsequently changed labour governance practices in the electronics industry, mobilised power resources of credible information to exercise powers of expert authority and acts of dissimulation across various networked relationships in the GPN. This paper puts forth a multi-power framework of analysis to understand the micro-politics of GPNs.

scholarly journals The role of intermediaries in governance of global production networks: Restructuring work relations in Pakistan’s apparel industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Munir ◽  
Muhammad Ayaz ◽  
David L Levy ◽  
Hugh Willmott
Keyword(s):  
Price Competition ◽  
Adjustment Process ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
Restructuring Process ◽  
Apparel Companies

This article locates the reorganization of work relations in the apparel sector in Pakistan, after the end of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) quota regime, within the context of a global production network (GPN). We examine the role of a network of corporate, state, multilateral and civil society actors who serve as intermediaries in GPN governance. These intermediaries transmit and translate competitive pressures and invoke varied, sometimes contradictory, imaginaries in their efforts to realign and stabilize the GPN. We analyse the post-MFA restructuring of Pakistan’s apparel sector, which dramatically increased price competition and precipitated a contested adjustment process among Pakistani and global actors with divergent priorities and resources. These intermediaries converged on a ‘solution’ that combined and enacted imaginaries of modernization, competitiveness, professional management and female empowerment, while also emphasizing low costs and female docility. We highlight the intersection of economic, political and cultural dynamics of GPNs, and reveal the gendered dimensions of GPN restructuring. We theorize the role of these actors as a transnational managerial elite in GPN governance, who led a restructuring process that preserved the hegemonic stability of the GPN and protected the interests of western branded apparel companies and consumers, but did not necessarily serve the interests of workers.

The Logic of Production Networks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Wai‐chung Yeung
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Global Production Network

This chapter highlights and evaluates the most significant economic–geographical research that examines the logic and role of production networks in facilitating global–local economic integration. It first explains how the global production network (GPN) approach describes and explains the logic of this global–local economic integration. Advocating a network understanding of the economic–geographical process of value transformation in a global mosaic of local and regional economies, this approach has deployed or developed three central concepts—power relations, network and territorial embeddedness, and strategic coupling. The chapter then considers the significance of this GPN literature, its key controversies, and the prospects and future directions for research in, what might be termed, GPN 2.0 research in economic geography in the next ten to fifteen years.

Deriving a global production network type in times of uncertainty – a simulation based approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 552-575
Author(s):  
Shuangqing Liao ◽  
Adrian Rüegg ◽  
Roman Hänggi
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Management Problem ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Local Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Global Production Network ◽  
Network Type

Global production networks are highly complex to manage and constantly to optimize. Recent developments such as political power changes, pandemic crises or increasing trade hurdles have significantly altered the risk exposure of global production set-ups. We use optimization and simulation tools to derive a suitable network type. We develop a global cross-shipping strategy with an integrated approach combining heuristics and simulation. We quantify the impacts of different uncertainties, such as plant closure and high demand variation with simulation, and it to compare to a local-to-local production network. Our approach makes the model easy to implement and close to real-world processes. This paper provides support for production network decision-making. We present a scientifically sound and practically feasible approach to an important actual business management problem. The developed integrated approach does not require assumptions about the production network structure or policies and is therefore applicable to a wide range of settings. In our case study, we quantify the positive impact of a global cross-shipping production network in comparison to a local-to-local approach. The result of our study helps to adjust the needed strategic and operational measures to manage a global production network.

Hybrid governance and extraterritoriality: Understanding Singapore's state capitalism in the context of oil global production networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2110481
Author(s):  
Neil McGregor ◽  
Neil M. Coe
Keyword(s):  
State Ownership ◽  
The State ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Private Governance ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
State Capitalism ◽  
Hybrid Governance ◽  
Global Production Network

This paper explores the intersections and overlaps between state capitalism and global production networks. A key feature of the so-called new state capitalism is the combination of state ownership and corporatisation, which creates a system that can be characterised as a hybrid of public–private governance in both corporate and network terms. Moreover, the internationalisation of state hybrids adds an extraterritorial dimension to the state, which can influence the configuration and governance of global production networks. This paper develops a conceptual framework (H–E–N) that foregrounds the relationships between hybrid governance (H), extraterritoriality (E) and global production network configurations (N), thereby promoting an integrated analysis of the implications of the new state capitalism for global production networks. This framework is mobilised to explain how state capitalism in Singapore has influenced the development of the city-state's position in upstream, midstream and downstream oil global production networks over the 1959–2019 period. The study demonstrates that hybrid governance, as part of a wider strategy of state capitalism, has been critical in the development of Singapore's position in oil global production networks. The hybrid nature of the institutional forms associated with state ownership – for instance state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds – goes beyond market facilitation to encompass active state participation in markets. Hybrid governance not only allows the state to influence domestic outcomes but – through the extraterritorial strategies of hybrid entities – can also influence global production network configurations beyond its borders.

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