1. © Peter Dicken 2015

2. Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity In The Global Economy
Global Shift
Chapter 3

3. Review Concepts to Review Key Words Globalization
Hyper-globalizers, sceptics, transformationalists
Key Words
Global production networks, financialization, transnational corporations, processes of globalization, connectivity, complexity, geographical clusters

4. Global Production Networks
Definition of GPNs
GPNs are networks which are geographically extensive and functionally integrated across national boundaries rather than actually spanning the whole world
Traits of GPNs
Turning inputs into outputs through production circuits
Unevenness of power relations
Involved in both cooperation and competition at the same time
Integrate firms into structures which blur traditional organizational boundaries

5. GPNs (continued) Infrastructure of GPNs Concept of Financialization
Formation of GPNs
Deterritorialization of capital
Multiscalar regulatory systems and their impact on GPNs
Relationship of state to GPNs
Concept of Financialization
Drives the formation and expansion of GPNs

6. Actors Within GPNs Transnational Corporations Labour Consumers
Global Civil Society Organizations

7. Geographical Clusters
The Nature of Geographical Clusters
generalized versus specialized
formation
structure
territorial embeddedness
Networks
geographical
organizational