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"In Interconnected Worlds, Henry Wai-Chung Yeung offers a theory-driven analysis of electronics global production networks during the 2010s, in order to develop the idea of global production networks as an organizational innovation that connect different and yet interdependent "worlds" of production (e.g. from Silicon Valley to East Asia) and to demonstrate how GPN 2.0 can be productively applied to explain these contemporary organizational dynamics in the global electronics industry"--
List of contents
1. Worlds of Electronics: From National Innovations to Global Production
2. Changing Fortunes in Global Electronics: A Brief History
3. Global Production Networks: A Theory of Interconnected Worlds
4. Geographical Configurations of Global Electronics Centered in East Asia
5. Firm Strategies and Organizational Innovations in Production Networks
6. Explaining Production Networks: Causal Drivers and Competitive Dynamics
7. Whither (De-)Globalized Electronics Production in the 2020s? Current Trajectories and Future Agendas
About the author
Henry Wai-chung Yeung is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography and Co-Director of Global Production Networks Centre at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2022 Sir Peter Hall Award by UK's Regional Studies Association, the 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Honors by the American Association of Geographers and the 2017 Murchison Award by UK's Royal Geographical Society.
