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Gateway Cities in Global Production Networks

Part of the Economic Geography Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16957-2

ISBN: 978-3-030-16956-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Apr 27, 2019

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Introduction

Breul, Moritz

Pages: 1 –7

[This chapter is the introduction to this book. It provides an overview of the relationship between the growing importance of few metropolises around the world and processes of economic globalization and explains why the understanding of cities’ gateway role is crucial. Furthermore the objectives...
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Conceptual Framework

Breul, Moritz

Pages: 9 –26

[Production processes in the global economy create two forms of networks—organizational and geographical. The former encompasses complex interactions within and between different firms as well as with extra-firm actors that constitute production networks. The latter depicts webs of economic...
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Research Design

Breul, Moritz

Pages: 27 –37

[This chapter outlines the broader methodological framework how gateway cities are explored in this study. First, the case study of the oil and gas industry in Southeast Asia is justified and relevant context information is presented. Second, the research methods are presented. Inspired by the...
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Cities as Regional Nodes in Global Value Chains: The Example of the Oil and Gas Industry in Southeast Asia

Breul, Moritz

Pages: 39 –64

[To date empirical research on world cities has primarily focused on relations among world cities. We have learnt little about the linkages to places that become integrated by world cities into particular global value chains. This article analyses the regional role of cities by tracing...
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An Intermediate Step to Resource Peripheries: The Strategic Coupling of Gateway Cities in the Upstream Oil and Gas GPN

Breul, Moritz

Pages: 65 –85

[The actual extraction of natural resources is territorially tied to their geological occurrence. However, previous studies have shown that a direct strategic coupling with commodity source regions has become increasingly uncommon in the context of the contemporary organization of extractive...
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Filtering Strategic Coupling: Territorial Intermediaries in Oil and Gas Global Production Networks in Southeast Asia

Breul, Moritz

Pages: 87 –112

[The Global Production Network (GPN) approach has not yet considered the importance of territorial intermediaries for strategic coupling. This article demonstrates how the prospects of strategic coupling for the case of Vietnam and Indonesia with the oil and gas GPN are affected by the gateway...
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Concluding Discussion

Breul, Moritz

Pages: 113 –125

[This chapter draws a conclusion from the whole work. In a first step, the major findings of the role of gateway cities in global production networks are summarized and discussed against the background of existing literature. In the following subchapters implications for research and policy are...

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