Global Production Networks

Abstract

This chapter provides a cogent introduction to global production network (GPN) research both by charting its intellectual lineage and by profiling theoretical concerns and debates under the auspices of a move to a 'GPN 2.0' version. It identifies potential contact points between contemporary GPN research and work in International Business. GPN research seeks to develop a conceptual framework linking the processes of global production network formation and organization to differential developmental outcomes. The idea of a global production network highlights the actor-specific coordination and cooperation strategies through which such networks are constructed and sustained, and their on-the-ground developmental implications. As global financial integration takes place in tandem with global production, often under-played in the existing literature, places great emphasis on short-term returns to shareholders and corporate restructuring and downsizing to increase shareholder value. Global commodity chain research and global value chain work were important inspirations for the development of the initial GPN framework in Economic Geography in the early 2000s.

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