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Spatial evolution of local production network under economic globalization

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  • Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resource Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China

Received date: 2003-04-01

  Revised date: 2003-09-20

  Online published: 2004-02-15

Abstract

Under economic globalization, the free flow of capital, goods, technology and information will have impact on the spatial location of product elements. However, the local force based on local economic development is important. So, the behavior of regional economic main body-enterprise under economic globalization is the result of co-action of global force and local force. In this paper, we will probe into the mechanism and type of actions between global force and local force, and analyses the evolution of local production network in the view of the game play between global corporation and local enterprise. Firstly, on the assumption that two kinds of enterprise are economic reasonable bodies, their strategic behavior under globalization all aimed to make their benefits maximized. In order to realize their aims, the global corporation and the local force all only have two choices: the global corporation could select entering or not entering into local production network, while the local enterprise could select connecting or not connecting with global production network. So, this will lead to four results of combinations and results of these two enterprises. Secondly, with regard to four game results of the global corporation and the local enterprise, which will lead to four types of evolution of local production network, which are connecting and expending, breaking and solving, growing and stringing, and resisting and waning. Finally, we conduct analysis by taking three field examples of Chinese current three types of regional spatial structure’s evolution.

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MA Li, LIU Wei-dong, LIU Yi . Spatial evolution of local production network under economic globalization[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2004 , 23(1) : 87 -96 . DOI: 10.11821/yj2004010011

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