Abstract：Global Production Networks (GPNs) have become the focus in the research of economic geography and related fields in recent years.“Manchester school”of economic geographers constructed a framework for GPN 1.0 analysis, which provided an important perspective to understand the global economy geographic territory and regional development in the globalization.Based on it, Henry Yeung & Neil Coe came up with GPN 2.0 theory, in which three kinds of dynamic driving force were combined with the risk environment.And the organization and operation mechanism of GPN was explained through the four different actor-specific strategies.There are some differences between GPN 2.0 and GPN 1.0.Firstly, GPN 2.0 was formed in the deep adjustment stage of globalization.Secondly, GPN 2.0 provided a more exquisite division of enterprise actors.Thirdly, GPN2.0 included key capitalist dynamics in explaining“why”GPNs occur in the first place, which provided the key causal drivers.Fourthly, GPN 2.0 put forward three modes and eight types of strategic coupling, which enabled a more nuanced discussion of the implications of strategic coupling for regional development.Meanwhile, there are some inadequacies and methodological constraints in the GPN 2.0, and more researches are needed for the development of GPN theory, which including finding out the specificity of the causal mechanism, and the real variables in the analytical framework, exploring the driving force and influence according to the difference of industry nature, taking the domestic market and technology into GPN analytical framework and researching the interaction between different actors and the evolution of networks.
Keyword：economic geography; Global Production Networks; globalization; regional development;
【source】Geography and Geo-Information Science2017年06期
