Geographical Dynamics and Firm Spatial Strategy in China, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Springer Geography Series
Auteurs : Zhu Shengjun, Pickles John, He Canfei
Introduction.- Bring In, Go Up, Go West, Go Out: Upgrading, Regionalization and Delocalization in China’s Apparel Production Networks.- Geographical Dynamics and Industrial Relocation: Spatial Strategies of Apparel Firms in Ningbo, China.- Global, Regional and Local: New Firm Formation and Spatial Restructuring in China’s Apparel Industry.- Turkishization of a Chinese Apparel Firm: Fast Fashion, Regionalization, and the Shift from Global Supplier to New End Markets.- Institutional embeddedness and regional adaptability and rigidity in a Chinese apparel cluster.- Global and local governance, industrial and geographical dynamics: a tale of two clusters.- Going Green or Going Away: Environmental Regulation, Economic Geography and Firms’ Strategies in China’s Pollution-intensive Industries.- Summary and Conclusion.
(1) Shengjun Zhu
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences
Peking University
Beijing 100871, China
Email: zhus@pku.edu.cn
Shengjun Zhu joins the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University (China) from Swansea University (UK), where he worked as a lecturer for two years. He received a Ph.D. in Geography at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA). Before coming to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he earned a Bachelor and Master Degree in Geography and a Bachelor Degree in Economics from Peking University, China.
His major interests lie in globalization; regional development; global production networks; global value chains; industrial relocation and delocalization; industrial, social and environmental upgrading/downgrading. With his inter-disciplinary research and education background, Dr. Zhu is able to thoroughly investigate research questions and offer unique insights and perspectives. His papers have been published in some high-quality academic journals, including Journal of Contemporary Asia, Geoforum, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Geojournal and Post-communist Economies. At the same time, Dr. Zhu has accumulated abundant industrial experience from various consulting projects.
Selected Recent Publications:
Zhu, S., C. He and Y. Liu. 2014. “Going Green or Going Away: Environmental Regulation, Economic Geography and Firms’ Strategies in China’s Pollution-intensive Industries.” Geoforum, 55: 53-65.
Lan, T. and S. Zhu (corresponding author). 2014. “Chinese Apparel Value Chains in Europe: Low-end Fast Fashion, Regionalization, and Transnational Entrepreneurship in Prato, Italy.” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 55(2): 156-174.
Zhu, S. and C. He. 2014. “Global, Regional and Local: New Firm Formation and Spatial Restructuring in China’s Apparel Industry.” GeoJournal, 79(2)
Develops a strategy-related theory to explain the discussions between public and private economic governance in global value chains and global production networks
Offers the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics currently restructuring China’s export-oriented industries
Addresses at different scales (global, regional and local) the legacies and social structures of the command economy
Opens up a broader field for the discussion of corporate tactics and regional strategies
Demonstrates the interface between evolutionary economic geography approaches and the global value chain/global production network
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Date de parution : 01-2017
Ouvrage de 206 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 07-2018
Ouvrage de 206 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Thèmes de Geographical Dynamics and Firm Spatial Strategy in China :
Mots-clés :
China apparel industry; Geographical dynamics; Global production network; Global value chain; Industrial restructuring; Regionalization in China’s apparel production; Relocation/delocalization in China’s apparel production; Spatial strategy; Transmission of family firms; Upgrading in China’s apparel production
