Interconnected worlds : global electronics and production networks in East Asia

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Interconnected worlds : global electronics and production networks in East Asia

Henry Wai-chung Yeung

（Innovation and technology in the world economy）

Stanford Business Books, an Imprint of Stanford University Press, c2022

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

  • Worlds of electronics : from national innovations to global production
  • Changing fortunes in global electronics : a brief history
  • Global production networks : a theory of interconnected worlds
  • Geographical configurations of global electronics centered in East Asia
  • Firm strategies and organizational innovations in production networks
  • Explaining production networks : causal drivers and competitive dynamics
  • Whither (de)globalized electronics production in the 2020s? : current trajectories and future agendas

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The global electronics industry is one of the most innovation-driven and technology-intensive sectors in the contemporary world economy. From semiconductors to end products, complex transnational production and value-generating activities have integrated diverse macro-regions and national economies worldwide into the "interconnected worlds" of global electronics. This book argues that the current era of interconnected worlds started in the early 1990s when electronics production moved from systems dominated by lead firms in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan towards increasingly globalized and cross-macro-regional electronics manufacturing centered in East Asia. By the 2010s, this co-evolution of production network complexity transformed global electronics, through which lead firms from South Korea, Taiwan, and China integrated East Asia into the interconnected worlds of electronics production across the globe. Drawing on literature on the electronics industry, new empirical material comprising custom datasets, and extensive personal interviews, this book examines through a "network" approach the co-evolution of globalized electronics production centered in East Asia across different national economies and sub-national regions. With comprehensive analysis up to 2021, Yeung analyzes the geographical configurations ("where"), organizational strategies ("how"), and causal drivers ("why") of global production networks, setting a definitive benchmark into the dynamic transformations in global electronics and other globalized industries. The book will serve as a crucial resource for academic and policy research, offering a conceptual, empirically driven grounding in the theory of these networks that has become highly influential across the social sciences.

Table 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

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