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Global Webs
GordonWinder
Global Webs
Dicken (2003)
GlobalShift
PeterDicken
New Under Globalisation
Global Webs
The New International Division of Labour (Fröbel, Heinrichs and Kreye 1980) –European corporations restructure by relocating production to low wage economies.
•International Subcontracting – with Just-in-Time Systems using CAD/CAM
•Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures
NIDL
New Integrative Practices
Global Webs
•Complex Global TNC Organisation – hybrid structures, larger enterprises, increased organisational complexity, geographical spread, integrated network configuration, flexible co-ordination of processing networks, networks of extra.firm relationships, blurred organisational boundaries (Bartlett and Ghoshal 1989)•Disintegrated Production Networks –
rescaled and spread over the globe•Hollow CorporationsGlobal Production Networks, Commodity/ Value Chains, Global Webs of Enterprise
NewIntegrativePractices
Key Role of New
Technology
Substantive Research
Global Webs
•Ford' Global Car ConceptRestructuring of US Automobile Production – NAFTA, Canadian plants get N. American market, Maquiladora role, clustering of sub assembly manufacturers•Nike Subcontracts ProductionHong Kong's Role in Guanzhou Production Networks•Fonterra – reconstituted milk, stategic alliances and joint ventures
SubstantiveResearch
Network
Mapping at Many
Scales
Offices of Japan’s Soga Shosha (Dicken 2003).
Synoptic Approach
Mapping at Many
Scales
Mapping the Textile and Garment Industries:
Employment and Trade (Dicken 2003)
Garment Jobs
Textile Jobs Trade
Political Integration
Global Webs
•End of the Cold War – integration of China and the Soviet Block into world trade•Transnational Governance – bilateral trade agreements, GATT, WTO, World Bank, IMF, G7, Neo-Liberal trade liberalisation, customs harmonisation, monetary union.
•Trading Blocks – EU, NAFTA, ASEAN•NGOs -- consumer sovereignty, retail chain power, fair trade, bio, labour and other certification programmes.
PoliticalIntegration
Survey
Mapping at Many
ScalesDeveloping Country Debt 2001 (Dicken 2003).
Geography Matters!
Global Webs
•Globalisation is not complete.•Territorial regulation may be more
effective if worked over largerunits.
•Emerging networks also have theirown geography.
•Scale is relative and sociallyconstructed.
Recent Developments
Global Webs
•The ‘hollowing out’ of the state.•Globalisation as rhetoric.•Positionality within the network.•Wormholes.
New Zealand News
Global Webs
Free Trade Deal Signed With China
Wellington 2004
●Last Chance for Farm Subsidy Agreement
Geneva 2005●
Agreement Reached on Wine Regions
New York 2005●
UN Investigates NZ LegislationAuckland 2005
Peter Jackson Rests Before Premier of
King KongNew York 2005
●NZRFU Wins Rights
to Host Rugby World Cup 2007
Dublin 2005●
Algerian AhmedZouai Released
Auckland 2004●
Auckland Star
New ZealandHerald
South Pacific News
Global Webs
Fijian Soldiers Keep Peace
Kabul 2004
●Fijian Mercenaries Arrested in Papua
New GuineaPort Moresby 2005
●Vanuatu Quiet as Australian & New Zealand Forces Establish Order
Vanuatu 2004●
Protesters Demand Democracy
Tonga 2005●
South Pacific Forum Plan to Share Island
GovernancePort Moresby 2005
●Kiribas Crews
World’s Container Fleet
Singapore 2004●
Auckland Star
New ZealandHerald
Reading
Global Webs
Dicken, P., 1998. Global Shift. New York: GuilfordPress, 3rd edition.
Dicken, P., Peck, J., and Tickell, A., 1997. Unpackingthe Global. In Lee, R. and Wills, J., (eds.),Geographies of Economies London: Arnold.
Dicken, P., 2004. Geographers and 'Globalisation':(Yet) Another Missed Boat? Transactions of theInstitute of British Geographers NS 29:5-26.
Fröbel, F., Heinrichs, J. and Kreye, O., 1980. The NewInternational Division of Labour. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.
Yeung, H.W., 2002. The Limits to GlobalisationTheory: A Geographic Perspective on GlobalEconomic Change. Economic Geography: 285-305.
References
Reading
Global Webs
Brenner, N., 1998. Between Fixity and Motion:Accumulation, Territorial Organization and theHistorical Geography of Spatial Scales. Environmentand Planning D: Society and Space 16(4): 459-481.
Brenner, N., 2001. Globalisation: A CriticalIntroduction. International Sociology 16(3): 509-515.
Gibb, R., 2000. Post Lome: The European Union andthe South. Third World Quarterly 21(3): 457-481.
Sheppard, E., 2002. The Spaces and Times ofGlobalisation: Place, Scale, Networks andPostionality. Economic Geography: 307-330.
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