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Chapter 1 - Introduction: Questioning 'Globalization'

Chapter 2 - Global Shift: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy

Chapter 3 - Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy

Chapter 4 - Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction'

Chapter 5 - Transnational Corporations: The Primary 'Movers and Shapers' of
                  the Global Economy

Chapter 6 - The State Really Does Matter

Chapter 7 - The Uneasy Relationship between TNCs and States: Dynamics of Conflict
                  and Collaboration

Chapter 8 - 'Making Holes in the Ground': The Extractive Industries

Chapter 9 - 'We Are What We Eat': The Agro-Food Industries

Chapter 10 - 'Fabric-ating Fashion': The Clothing Industries

Chapter 11 - 'Wheels of Change': The Automobile Industry

Chapter 12 - 'Making the World Go Round': Advanced Business
                   Services – Especially Finance

Chapter 13 - 'Making the Connections, Moving the Goods': Logistics
                   and Distribution Services

Chapter 14 - 'Capturing Value' within Global Production Networks

Chapter 15 - 'Destroying Value': Environmental Impacts of Global Production Networks

Chapter 16 - Winning and Losing: Where You Live Really Matters

Chapter 17 - Making the World a Better Place

Amin, A. (2004) Regulating economic globalization.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29: 217-33.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00126.x/abstract

Banerjee, S.B. and Linstead, S. (2001) Globalization, multiculturalism and other fictions: Colonialism for the new millennium?’
Organization, November, 8(4): 683-722.

Cole, K. (2003) Globalization: understanding complexity.
Progress in Development Studies, October, 3(4): 323-38.

Dicken, P. (2004) Geographers and ‘globalization’: (yet) another missed boat?
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29: 5-26.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00111.x/abstract

Harvey, D. (2007) Neoliberalism as creative destruction.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March, 610(1): 1-44.

Kelly, P.F. (1999) The geographies and politics of globalization.
Progress in Human Geography, September, 23(3): 379-400.

Kiely, R. (2005) Globalization and poverty, and the poverty of globalization theory.
Current Sociology, November, 53(6): 895-914.

Kozlarek, O. (2001) Critical theory and the challenge of globalization.
International Sociology, December, 16(4): 607-22.

Osland, J.S. (2003) Broadening the debate: The pros and cons of globalization.
Journal of Management Inquiry, June, 12(2): 137-54.

Reuveny, R. and Thompson, W.R. (2007) The limits of economic globalization: Still another North–South cleavage?’.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, April, 48(2-3): 107-35.

Van Der Bly, M.C.E. (2005) Globalization: A triumph of ambiguity.
Current Sociology, November, 53(6): 875-93.

Athukorala, P-c. (2009) Trends and patterns of foreign direct investments in Asia: A comparative perspective.
Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, October/December, 3(4): 365-408.

Babones, S.J. and Vonada, D.C. (2009) Trade globalization and national income inequality - are they related?’.
Journal of Sociology, March, 45(1): 5-30.

Domosh, M. (2010) The world was never flat: early global encounters and the messiness of empire.
Progress in Human Geography, August, 34(4): 419-35

Nederveen Pieterse, J. (2000) Globalization North and South: Representations of uneven development and the interaction of modernities.
Theory, Culture & Society, February, 17(1): 129-37.

O’Hara, P.A. (2004) A new transnational corporate social structure of accumulation for long-wave upswing in the world economy?.
Review of Radical Political Economics, Summer, 36(3): 328-35.

Rapley, J. (2001) Convergence: myths and realities.
Progress in Development Studies, October, 1(4): 295-308.

Rasler, K. and Thompson, W.R. (2009) Globalization and North-South inequality, 1870-2000: A factor for convergence, divergence or both?’.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, October/December, 50(5-6): 425-51.

Sacks, M.A.,Ventresca, M.J.and Uzzi, B. (2001) Global institutions and networks: Contingent change in the structure of world trade advantage, 1965-1980.
American Behavioral Scientist, June, 44(10): 1579-1601.

Amin, A. (2002) Spatialities of globalization.
Environment and Planning, A 34: 385-99.
http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=a3439

Bathelt, H., Malmberg, A. and Maskell, P. (2004) Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation.
Progress in Human Geography, 28: 31-56.

Berndt, C. and Boeckler, M. (2009) Geographies of circulation and
exchange: constructions of markets.
Progress in Human Geography, 33(4): 535-51.

Carroll, W.K and Sapinski, J.P. (2010) The global corporate elite and the transnational
policy-planning network, 1996-2006: A structural analysis.
International Sociology, July, 25(4): 501-38.

Ciccantell, P. and Smith, D.A. (2009) Rethinking global commodity chains: Integrating extraction, transport, and manufacturing.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, June/August, 50(3-4): 361-84.

Clark, R. and Beckfield, J. (2009) A new trichotomous measure of world-system position using the international trade network.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, February, 50(1): 5-38.

Coe, N.M., Dicken, P. and Hess, M. (2008) Global production networks: realizing the potential.
Journal of Economic Geography, 8: 271-95.
http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/3/271.full

Dauvergne, P. and Lister, J. (2010) The power of big box retail in global environmental governance: Bringing commodity chains back into IR.
Millennium - Journal of International Studies, August, 39(1): 145-60.

Dicken, P. and Malmberg, A. (2001) Firms in territories: a relational perspective.
Economic Geography, 77: 345-63.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2001.tb00169.x/abstract

Gertler, M. S. (2003) Tacit knowledge and the economic geography of context, or the undefinable tacitness of being there.
Journal of Economic Geography, 3: 75-99. http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/1/75.abstract

Hess, M. (2004) ‘Spatial’ relationships? Towards a re-conceptualization of embeddedness.
Progress in Human Geography, 28: 165-86.

Hudson, R. (2007) Region and place: rethinking regional development in the context of global environmental change.
Progress in Human Geography, 31(6): 827-36.

Ivarsson, I. and Alvstam, C.G. (2010) Upstream control and downstream liberty of action?: Interdependence patterns in global value chains, with examples from producer-driven and buyer-driven industries.
Review of Market Integration, April, 2(1): 43-60.

Martin, R. and Sunley, P. (2003) Deconstructing clusters: chaotic concept or policy panacea?
Journal of Economic Geography, 3: 5-36.
http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/1/5.abstract

Peck, J. A. and Theodore, N. (2007) Variegated capitalism
Progress in Human Geography, 31: 731-2.

Scott, A.J. (2008) Resurgent metropolis: economy, society and urbanization in an interconnected world.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32: 548-64. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00795.x/full

Smith, A., Rainnie, A., Dunford, M., Hardy,J., Hudson,R. and Sadler, D. (2002) Networks of value, commodities and regions: Reworking divisions of labour in
macro-regional economies.
Progress in Human Geography, February, 26(1): 41-63.

Storper, M. and Venables, A.J. (2004) Buzz: face-to-face contact and the urban economy.
Journal of Economic Geography, 4: 351-70. http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/4/4/351.abstract

Tregaskis, O., Edwards, T., Edwards, P., Ferner, A. and Marginson, P. (2010)
Transnational learning structures in multinational firms: Organizational context and national embeddedness.
Human Relations, April, 63(4): 471-99.

Bathelt, H., Malmberg, A. and Maskell, P. (2004) Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation.
Progress in Human Geography, 28: 31-56.
http://phg.sagepub.com/content/28/1/31.short

Bunnell, T.G. and Coe, N.M. (2001) Spaces and scales of innovation.  
Progress in Human Geography, 25(4): 569-90.

Chen, S-H., Chen, Y-C.,  and Wen, P-C. (2009) MNCs' offshore R & D mandates and host countries' locational advantages: A comparsion between Taiwan and China.
China Information, March, 23(1): 159-87.

Gachino, G.G. (2010) Technological spillovers from multinational presence: towards a conceptual framework.
Progress in Development Studies, July 10(3): 193-210.

Gertler, M. S. (2003) Tacit knowledge and the economic geography of context, or the undefinable tacitness of being there.
Journal of Economic Geography, 3: 75-99. http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/1/75.abstract

Gordon, I.R. and McCann, P. (2000) Industrial clusters: complexes, agglomeration and/or social networks?.
Urban Studies, 37(3): 513-38.

Hwang, K. (2007) International collaboration in multilayered center-periphery in the globalization of science and technology. 
Science, Technology & Human Values, January, 33 (1): 101-33.

MacKinnon,D., Cumbers,A.  and Chapman, K. (2003) Learning, innovation and regional development: a critical appraisal of recent debates.
Progress in Human Geography, June, 26(3): 293-311.

Maignan, I. And Ralston, D. D. (2002) Corporate social responsibility in Europe and the US: insights from businesses’ self-presentations.
Journal of International Business Studies 33: 497-514.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3069527

Malecki, E. J. (2002) The economic geography of the Internet’s infrastructure.
Economic Geography, 78: 399-424.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2002.tb00193.x/abstract

Parker, R. (2010) Evolution and change in industrial clusters: An analysis of Hsinchu and Sophia Antipolis.
European Urban and Regional Studies, July, 17(3): 245-60.

Salomon, R.M. (2006) Spillovers to foreign market participants: assessing the impact of export strategies on innovative productivity.
Strategic Organization, May, 4(2): 135-64.

Storper, M. and Venables, A.J. (2004) Buzz: face-to-face contact and the urban economy. Journal of Economic Geography, 4: 351-70. http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/4/4/351.abstract

Sturgeon, T. J. (2003) What really goes on in Silicon Valley? Spatial clustering and dispersal in modular production networks.
Journal of Economic Geography, 3: 199-225. http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/2/199.short?rss=1&ssource=mfc

White, M.C. (2004) Inward investment, firm embeddedness and place: An assessment of Ireland’s multinational software sector.
European Urban and Regional Studies, July, 11(3): 243-60.

Bathelt, H. and Gertler, M. S. (2005) The German variety of capitalism: forces and dynamics of evolutionary change.
Economic Geography, 81: 1-9.

Henderson, H. (2000) Transnational corporations and global citizenship.
American Behavioral Scientist, May, 43(8): 1231-61.

Jones, A. (2008) Beyond embeddedness: economic practices and the invisible dimensions of transnational business activity.
Progress in Human Geography, February, 32(1): 71-88.

Kasper, H., Lehrer, M., Mühlbacher, J. and Müller, B. (2009) Integration-responsiveness and knowledge-management perspectives on the MNC: A typology and field study of cross-site knowledge-sharing practices. 
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, February, 15 (3): 287-303.

Ke, S. and Lai, M. (2010) Productivity of Chinese regions and the location of multinational research and development.
International Regional Science Review, first published on 13 September 13, 2010.

Lervik, J.L. and Lunnan, R. (2004) Contrasting perspectives on the diffusion of management knowledge: Performance management in a norwegian multinational.
Management Learning, August, 35(3): 287-302.

Macleod, S. and Lewis, D. (2004) Transnational corporations: Power, influence and responsibility.
Global Social Policy, April, 4(1): 77-98.

Mir, R. and Mir, A. (2009) From the colony to the corporation: Studying knowledge transfer across international boundaries.
Group & Organization Management, February, 34(1): 90-113

Poon, J. P. H. and Thompson, E. R. (2004) Convergence or differentiation? American and Japanese corporations in the Asia-Pacific.
Geoforum, 35: 111-25.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/

Sturgeon, T. J. (2002) Modular production networks: a new American model of industrial organization.
Industrial and Corporate Change, 11: 451-96. http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/3/451.short

Tenkasi, R.V. and Chesmore, M.C. (2003) Social networks and planned organizational change: The impact of strong network ties on effective change implementation and use.
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, September 39(3): 281-300.

Yeung, H.W-c. (2000) The dynamics of Asian business systems in a globalizing era.
Review of International Political Economy, 7: 399-433.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com

Yeung, H.W-c. (2009) Transnationalizing entrepreneurship: a critical agenda for economic geography.
Progress in Human Geography, April, 33(2): 210-35.

Yeung, H. W-c., Poon, J. and Perry, M. (2001) Towards a regional strategy: the role of regional headquarters of foreign firms in Singapore.
Urban Studies, 38: 157-83.
http://usj.sagepub.com/content/38/1/157.refs

Bongyu, M.G. (2009) The economic and monetary community of Central Africa (CEMAC) and the decline of sovereignty.
Journal of Asian and African Studies, August, 44(4): 389-406.

Cerny, P.G (2000) Political agency in a globalizing world: Toward a structurational approach. European Journal of International Relations, December, 6(4): 435-63.

Gao, B. (2000) Globalization and ideology: The competing images of the contemporary Japanese economic system in the 1990s.
International Sociology, September, 15(3): 435-53.

Glenn, J. (2009) Welfare spending in an era of globalization: The North-South Divide. International Relations, March, 23(1): 27-50.

Light, D.W. (2007) Globalizing restricted and segmented markets: Challenges to theory and values in economic sociology.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March, 610(1): 232-45.

Peck, J.A. and Theodore, N. (2007) Variegated capitalism.  
Progress in Human Geography, 31(6): 731-72.

Taylor, P.J. (1994) The state as container: territoriality in the modern world-system.
Progress in Human Geography, 18: 151-62.

Wang, H-l. (2000) Rethinking the global and the national: Reflections on national imaginations in Taiwan.
Theory, Culture & Society, August, 17(4): 93-117.

Walby, S. (2003) ‘The myth of the nation-State: Theorizing society and polities in a global era.
Sociology, August, 37(3): 529-46.

Zhuplev, A. (2008) Economic internationalization of Russia: Roots, trends, and scenarios. International Political Science Review, January, 29(1): 99-119.

Bandelj, N. (2004) Negotiating global, regional, and national forces: Foreign investment in Slovenia.
East European Politics & Societies, August, 18(3): 455-80.

Blumentritt, T. and Rehbein, K. (2008) The political capital of foreign subsidiaries: An exploratory model.
Business & Society, June, 47(2): 242-63.

Dahan, N., Doh, J. and Guay, T. (2006) The role of multinational corporations in transnational institution building: A policy network perspective.
Human Relations, November,  59(11): 1571-1600.

Dicken, P. and Malmberg, A. (2001) Firms in territories: a relational perspective.
Economic Geography, 77: 345-63.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2001.tb00169.x/abstract

Geppert, M. and Matten, D. (2006) Institutional influences on manufacturing organization in multinational corporations: The ‘cherrypicking’ approach’.
Organization Studies, April 27(4): 491-515.

Liu, W. and Dicken, P. (2006) Transnational corporations and ‘obligated embeddedness’: foreign direct investment in China’s automobile industry.
Environment and Planning A, 38: 1229-47.
http://ideas.repec.org/a/pio/envira/v38y2006i7p1229-1247.html

Macleod, S. and Lewis, D. (2004) Transnational corporations: Power, influence and responsibility.
Global Social Policy, April, 4(1): 77-98.

Mizrachi, N., Drori, I., and Anspach, R.R. (2007) Repertoires of trust: The practice
of trust in a multinational organization amid political conflict.
American Sociological Review, February, 72(1): 143-65.

Phelps, N. A. (2004) Archetype for an archipelago? Batam as anti-model and model of industrialization in reformasi Indonesia.
Progress in Development Studies, July, 4(3): 206-29.

Schepers, D.H. (2006) The impact of NGO network conflict on the corporate social responsibility strategies of multinational corporations.
Business & Society, September, 45(3): 282-99.

Sheng, Y. (2007) Global market integration and central political control: Foreign trade and intergovernmental relations in China.
Comparative Political Studies, April, 40(4): 405-34.

Sklair, L. (2002) The transnational capitalist class and global politics: Deconstructing the corporate-state connection.
International Political Science Review, April, 23(2): 159-74.

Bridge, G. (2004) Mapping the bonanza: geographies of mining investment in an era of neoliberal reform.
The Professional Geographer, 56: 406-21.
http://www.informaworld.com

Bridge, G. (2008b) Global production networks and the extractive sector: governing resource-based development.
Journal of Economic Geography, 8: 389-419.
http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/3/389.abstract

Bridge, G. (2009) Material worlds: natural resources, resource geography and the material economy.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00233.x/abstract

Curtis, F. (2007) Climate change, peak oil, and globalization: Contradictions of natural capital.
Review of Radical Political Economics, Summer, 39(3): 385-90.

Davis, C.E. and Duffy, R.J. (2009) King Ccoal vs. reclamation: Federal regulation of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. 
Administration & Society, October, 41(6): 674-92.

Graulau, J. (2008) ‘Is mining good for development?’: the intellectual history
of an unsettled question. 
Progress in Development Studies, April, 8(2): 129-62.

Hilson, G. (2007) What is wrong with the Global Support Facility for small-scale mining?. Progress in Development Studies, July, 7(3):  235-49.

Humphreys, M. (2005) Natural resources, conflict, and conflict resolution: Uncovering the mechanisms.  
Journal of Conflict Resolution, August, 49(4): 508-37.

Kuecker, G.D. (2007) Fighting for the forests: Grassroots resistance to mining in northern Ecuador.
Latin American Perspectives, March, 34(2): 94-107.

Lahiri-Dutt, K. (2008) Digging to survive: Women's livelihoods in South Asia's small mines and quarries.
South Asian Survey, September, 15(2): 217-44.

O’Regan, B. and Moles, R. (2002) Investment decisions of international mining firms: Policy approaches.
Simulation, June, 78(6): 362-79.

Özen, S. and Özen, H. (2009) Peasants against MNCs and the state: The role of the Bergama struggle in the institutional construction of the gold-mining field in Turkey. Organization, July, 16(4): 547-73.

Walton, S. (2007) Site the mine in our backyard! Discursive strategies of community stakeholders in an environmental conflict in New Zealand.
Organization & Environment, June, 20(2): 177-203.

Wright, T. (2006) The performance of China's industrial enterprises: A coal industry perspective.
China Information, July, 20(2): 165-99.

Bacon, C.M. (2010) A spot of coffee in crisis: Nicaraguan smallholder cooperatives, fair trade networks, and gendered empowerment.
Latin American Perspectives, March, 37(2): 50-71.

Belussi, F. and Sedita, S.R. (2008) The symbiotic division of labour between heterogeneous districts in the Dutch and Italian horticultural industry.
Urban Studies, December, 45(13): 2715-34.

Chollett, D.L. (2009) From sugar to blackberries: Restructuring agro-export production in Michoacán, Mexico.
Latin American Perspectives, May, 36(3): 79-92.

Cid-Aguayo, B.E. (2007) Frozen fates: The risky rationalization of a Chilean frozen vegetable company.
Latin American Perspectives, November, 34(6):  40-51.

Clapp, J. (2006) Unplanned exposure to genetically modified organisms: Divergent responses in the global south.
The Journal of Environment & Development, March, 15(1): 3-21.

Coe, N. M. and Hess, M. (2005) The internationalization of retailing: implications for supply network restructuring in East Asia and Eastern Europe.
Journal of Economic Geography, 5: 449-73. http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/4/449.short

Coe, N. M. and Lee, Y-S. (2006) The strategic localization of transnational retailers: the case of Samsung-Tesco in South Korea.
Economic Geography, 82: 61-88.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2006.tb00288.x/abstract

Holt-Giménez, E. and Shattuck, A. (2009) The agrofuels transition: Restructuring places and spaces in the global food system.
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, June, 29(3): 180-88.

Johnson, D.C. (2010) The international coffee agreement and the production of coffee in Guatemala, 1962-1989.
Latin American Perspectives, March, 37(2): 34-49.

Kessler,J-J.,  Rood, T., Tekelenburg, T. and Bakkenes, M. (2007) Biodiversity and socioeconomic impacts of selected agro-commodity production systems.
The Journal of Environment & Development, June, 16(2): 131-60.

Phyne, J. (2010) A comparative political economy of rural capitalism: Salmon aquaculture in Norway, Chile and Ireland.
Acta Sociologica, June, 53(2): 160-80.

Pritchard, B. (2000a) Geographies of the firm and transnational agro-food corporations in East Asia.
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21: 246-62.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9493.00080/abstract

Pritchard, B. (2000c) The transnational corporate networks of breakfast cereals in Asia.
Environment and Planning A, 32: 789-804.
http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=a32113

Thakur, R.R. (2005) The changing global agri-trade regime and Indian agri-exports.
Global Business Review, February, 6(1): 1-14.

Young, E.M. (2004) Globalization and food security: novel questions in a novel context?.
Progress in Development Studies, January, 4(1): 1-21.

Balaram,A., Yadav, S.S. and Baisya, R.K. (2003) Competitiveness of Indian apparel export firms: An analysis of select Delhi-based firms.
Global Business Review, February, 4(1): 57-76.

Collins, J. (2007) The rise of a global garment industry and the reimagination of worker solidarity.
Critique of Anthropology, December, 27(4): 395-409.

Dunford, M. (2006) Industrial districts, magic circles, and the restructuring of the Italian textiles and clothing chain.
Economic Geography, 82: 27-59.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2006.tb00287.x/abstract

Ha-Brookshire, J.E. and Dyer, B. (2008) Apparel import intermediaries: The impact of a hyperdynamic environment on U.S. apparel firms.
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, January, 26(1): 66-90.

Ha-Brookshire, J.E. and Lee, Y. (2010) Korean apparel manufacturing industry: Exploration from the industry life cycle perspective.
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, October, 28 (4): 279-94.

Ha-Brookshire, J.E. and Lu, S. (2010) Organizational identities and their economic performance: An analysis of U.S. textile and apparel firms.
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, July, 28(3): 174-88.

Kim, Y. and Rucker, M. (2005) Production sourcing strategies in the U.S. apparel industry: A modified transaction cost approach.
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, January, 23(1): 1-12.

Larner, W. and Molloy, M. (2009) Globalization, the `new economy' and working women: Theorizing from the New Zealand designer fashion industry.
Feminist Theory, April, 10(1): 35-59.

Miller, D. and Williams, P. (2009) What price a living wage?: Implementation issues in the quest for decent wages in the global apparel sector.
Global Social Policy, April, 9(1): 99-125.

Skov, L. (2006) The role of trade fairs in the global fashion business.
Current Sociology, September, 54(5): 764-83.

Smith, A., Pickles, J., Bucek, M., Begg, R. and Roukova, P. (2008) Reconfiguring ‘post-socialist’ regions: cross-border networks and regional competition in the Slovak and Ukrainian clothing industry.
Global Networks, 8: 281-307.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2008.00196.x/abstract

Su, J., Dyer, C.L. and Gargeya, V.B. (2009) Strategic sourcing and supplier selection in the U.S. textile- apparel-retail supply network.
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, April, 27(2): 83-97.

Tokatli, N. (2008) Global sourcing: insights from the global clothing industry – the case of Zara, a fast fashion retailer.
Journal of Economic Geography, 8: 21-38.
http://joeg.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/1/21.abstract

Tokatli, N., Wrigley, N. and Kizilgön, Ö. (2008) Shifting global supply networks and fast fashion: made in Turkey for Marks and Spencer.
Global Networks, 8: 261-80.
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/64467

Bernaciak,M. (2010) Cross-border competition and trade union responses in the enlarged EU: Evidence from the automotive industry in Germany and Poland.
European Journal of Industrial Relations, June, 16(2): 119-35.

Bilbao-Ubillos, J. (2010) ‘Spatial implications of new dynamics in production organisation: The case of the automotive industry in the Basque country.
Urban Studies, May, 47(5): 1117-46.

Bilbao-Ubillos, J. and Camino-Beldarrain, V. (2008) Proximity matters? European Union enlargement and relocation of activities: The case of the Spanish automotive industry.
Economic Development Quarterly, May, 22(2): 149-66.

Cooney, R. (2010) Workplace training in a deregulated training system: Experiences from Australia’s automotive industry.
Economic and Industrial Democracy, August, 31(3): 389-403.

Goh, M.K.H. and Garg, M. (2008) ChangAn Automotive Co. - making supply chains work.
Asian Journal of Management Cases, September, 5(2): 57-71.

Jürgens, U. and Krzywdzinski, M. (2009) Changing East–West division of labour in the European automotive industry.
European Urban and Regional Studies, January, 16(1): 27-42.

Kwon, H-K. (2003) Divergent constitution of liberal regimes: Comparison of the U.S. and German automotive supplier markets.
Politics & Society, March, 31(1): 93-130.

Liu, W. and Dicken, P. (2006) Transnational corporations and ‘obligated embeddedness’: foreign direct investment in China’s automobile industry.
Environment and Planning A, 38: 1229-47. http://ideas.repec.org/a/pio/envira/v38y2006i7p1229-1247.html

Liu, W. and Yeung, H.W-c. (2008) China’s dynamic industrial sector: the automobile industry.
Eurasian Geography and Economics, 49: 523-48.
http://bellwether.metapress.com/content/e60xk408646126n6/

Pavlínek, P. and Janak, L. (2007) Regional restructuring of the Skoda auto supplier network in the Czech Republic.
European Urban and Regional Studies, 14(2):133-55.

Pavlínek,P., Domański, B. and Guzik, R. (2009) Industrial upgrading through foreign direct investment in Central European automotive manufacturing.
European Urban and Regional Studies, January, 16(1): 43-63.

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