奔向全球的经济地理:战略耦合与全球生产网络研究——“全球生产网络与中国战略耦合”专辑序言

Towards global economic geographies: Strategic Coupling and Global Production Networks Research: An editorial for Geographical Research “Special Issue on Global Production Networks and Strategic Coupling in China”

进入21世纪以来,全球生产网络(Global Production Network,GPN)研究非常深刻地展现了Peter Dicken所描绘的"全球-地方矛盾"。这个概念由Dicken在1994年发表于《Economic Geography》上的Roepke Lecture特邀文章中首次提出;。作为过去20多年经济地理学的一个主要学术支柱,GPN研究经历了两个重要的理论发展阶段,即从早期的广泛而一般的GPN框架[2-4],过渡到更加具备解释性的GPN 2.0理论;。

Since the early 2000s, global production networks (GPN) research has fundamentally addressed the global-local tensions first identified in Peter Dicken's Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography. As one major scholarly pillar of economic geography by the early 2020s, GPN research has undergone two phases of significant theoretical development, transiting from the earlier broad and general GPN framework to the more recent and explanatory GPN 2.0 theory. During this exciting period of theory development in GPN research, a key and novel concept of “strategic coupling” was first developed in Coe et al. and substantially further refined in Yeung. By today, this new concept has become one of human geography’s competitive “exports” to the social sciences at large! Interestingly and despite its substantial influence and governance typology, the global value chain approach does not offer a similar kind of core concept.