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Introduction: Questioning Globalization What in the World Is Goingon? Conflicting Perspectives on 'Globalization' Grounding'Globalization': Geography Really Does Matter PART ONE: THE SHIFTING CONTOURSOF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Global Shift: Changing Geographies of the GlobalEconomy What's New? The Imprint of Past Geographies Roller-Coasters andInterconnections The Changing Contours of the Global Economic Map: GlobalShifts in Production, Trade and FDI The Dynamic Global Economic Map PARTTWO: PROCESSES OF GLOBAL SHIFT Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in theGlobal Economy An Analytical Point of Entry InstitutionalMacro-Structures of the Global Economy Global Production Networks Evenin a Globalizing World, Economic Activities Are Geographically LocalizedNetworks of Networks Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction'Technology and Economic Transformation Processes of Technological Change:An Evolutionary Perspective Time-Space Shrinking TechnologiesTechnological Innovations in Products and Processes Geographies ofInnovation Transnational Corporations: The Primary 'Movers and Shapers' ofthe Global Economy Why Firms Transnationalize How FirmsTransnationalize TNCs as 'Networks within Networks' Configuring theTNCs' Internal Networks TNCs within Networks of Externalized RelationshipsPerpetual Change: Reshaping TNCs' Internal and External Networks TheMyth of the 'Global' Corporation The State Really Does Matter 'The StateIs Dead' - Oh No It Isn't! States as Containers States as RegulatorsStates as Competitors States as Collaborators The Uneasy Relationshipbetween TNCs and States: Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration The TiesThat Bind Bargaining Processes between TNCs and States PART THREE: THEPICTURE IN DIFFERENT ECONOMIC SECTORS 'Making Holes in the Ground': TheExtractive Industries Beginning at the Beginning Production Circuits inthe Extractive Industries Global Shifts in the Extractive IndustriesVolatile Demand Technologies of Exploring, Extracting, Refining,Distributing The Centrality of State Involvement in the ExtractiveIndustries Corporate Strategies in the Extractive Industries Resources,Reserves and Futures 'We Are What We Eat': The Agro-Food IndustriesTransformation of the Food Economy: The 'Local' Becomes 'Global' Agro-FoodProduction Circuits Global Shifts in the Agro-Food Industries ConsumerChoices - and Consumer Resistances Transforming Technologies in Agro-FoodProduction The Role of the State Corporate Strategies in the Agro-FoodIndustries 'Fabric-ating Fashion': The Clothing Industries Changing RulesThe Clothing Production Circuit Global Shifts in the Clothing IndustriesChanging Patterns of Consumption Production Costs and Technology TheRole of the State and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement Corporate Strategies inthe Clothing Industries Regionalizing Production Networks in the ClothingIndustries 'Wheels of Change': The Automobile Industry All Change? TheAutomobile Production Circuit Global Shifts in Automobile Production andTrade Changing Patterns of Consumption Technological Change in theAutomobile Industry The Role of the State Corporate Strategies in theAutomobile Industry Regionalizing Production Networks in the AutomobileIndustry 'Making the World Go Round': Advanced Business Services - EspeciallyFinance The Centrality of Advanced Business Services The Structure ofAdvanced Business Services Dynamics of the Markets for Advanced BusinessServices Technological Innovation and Advanced Business Services TheRole of the State: Regulation, Deregulation, Reregulation CorporateStrategies in Advanced Business Services Geographies of Advanced BusinessServices 'Making the Connections, Moving the Goods': Logistics andDistribution Services Taking Distribution for Granted The Structure ofLogistics and Distribution Services The Dynamics of the Market forLogistics Services Technological Innovation and Logistics and DistributionServices The Role of the State: Regulation and Deregulation of Logisticsand Distribution Services Corporate Strategies in Logistics andDistribution Services Logistics 'Places': Key Geographical Nodes on theGlobal Logistics Map PART FOUR: WINNING AND LOSING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY'Capturing Value' within Global Production Networks Placing Places in GPNsCreating, Enhancing and Capturing Value in GPNs Upgrading (orDowngrading) of Local Economies within GPNs 'Destroying Value': EnvironmentalImpacts of Global Production Networks Production-Distribution-Consumptionas a System of Materials Flows and Balances Disturbing the DelicateBalance of Life on Earth: Damaging the Earth's Atmosphere Fouling theNest: Creating and Disposing of Waste Winning and Losing: Where You LiveReally Matters Location Matters Incomes and Poverty Where Will theJobs Come from? Populations on the Move Making the World a Better PlaceGlobal Shifts: Pasts and Futures 'The Best of All Possible Worlds'?TNCs and Corporate Social Responsibility States and Issues of GlobalGovernance A Better World Bibliography Index