CONSISTENCY BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION: POWER AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL GOVERNMENANCE OF PRODUCTION NETWORK
JING Xiu-yan1,2, ZENG Gang1
1. Department of Urban and Regional Economics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China;
2. Tourism Department, Min Jiang Univesity, Fuzhou 350108, China
Abstract：Power relationship is asymmetric because of the imbalance of key resources among firms. Powerful company can become a leader in its network. Because of production process can be divisible both in organization and space, lead company can enroll firms around the world to construct its production network. and can be classified into two kinds basically, global powerful buyers and global powerful producers. By analyzing some cases in Italian(Emillia-Romagna), Mexico (Torreon), Brazil (Sinos Valley), Pakistan (Sialkot) and China (Taiwan, Suzhou),this paper argues, through global commodity chain, the global powerful buyer builds a new power relationship typology with local production network, which is embedded into the global value chain governance system. Influenced by these global powerful buyers, the symmetric relationships are destroyed among local firms, power became asymmetric and vertical in a short term, global powerful buyer governs local production network through controlling local main supplier. When a global powerful producer does transnational investment, it can be regarded as a behavior of enlarging its dominating space. Because of the differences of inter-political, inter-culture, inter-market and so on, its production network in motherland could not be copied wholly to host country, for the same reason, the power relationships are much more complicated. By analysizing the foundation and evolution of Shanghai Volkswagen and its supplier network,this paper advances the governance of transnational production network needs to manage in teractively and game among various power relationships. And with the development of local production network, the father corporate power may be weakened.
景秀艳, 曾刚. 全球与地方的契合:权力与生产网络的二维治理[J]. 人文地理, 2007, 22(3): 22-27.
JING Xiu-yan, ZENG Gang. CONSISTENCY BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION: POWER AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL GOVERNMENANCE OF PRODUCTION NETWORK. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2007, 22(3): 22-27.
