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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

Chapter One
Introduction: Questioning 'Globalization'

De Angelis, M. and Harvie, D. (2008) Globalization? No question! Foreign
direct investment and labor commanded.
Review of Radical Political Economics, Fall, 40 (4): 429-44

Dicken, P. (2004) Geographers and ‘globalization’: (yet) another missed boat?.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29.

Foster, J.B., McChesney, R.W. (2010) Monopoly-finance capital and the paradox of accumulation.
Monthly Review, October, 61(5).

Gills, B. (2010) Going South: capitalist crisis, systemic crisis, civilisational crisis.
Third World Quarterly, March, 31(2).

Hirst, P. (1996) ‘Globaloney’ Prospect Magazine 5 (February). http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Hudson, R. (2004) Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits.
Progress in Human Geography, August 28(4): 447-71.

Wade, R. (2010) Is the globalization consensus dead?’.
Antipode, January, Supplement 1, 41.

Chapter Two
Global Shift: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy

Brooks, S.G. (2000-2001) Power, globalization, and the end of the Cold War.
International Security, Winter, 25(3).

Harris, J. (2009) Statist globalization in China, Russia and the Gulf States.
Science & Society, January, 73(1).

Kiely, R. (2008) Poverty's fall/China's rise: Global convergence or new forms of uneven development?.
Journal of Contemporary Asia, August, 38(3).

Chapter Three
Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy

Anheier, H. and Katz, H. (2004) Network approaches to global civil society. In H.K. Anheier, M. Glasius, H. Kaldor (eds)
Yearbook of Global Civil Society 2004.

Bellamy Foster, J. (2007) The financialization of capitalism.
Monthly Review; April, 58(11).

Coe, N.M., Dicken, P. and Hess, M. (2008) Global production networks: realizing the potential.
Journal of Economic Geography 8(3).

Goldstein, J.P. (2009) Introduction: The political economy of financialization.
Review of Radical Political Economics, 41.

Henderson, J., Dicken, P., Hess, M., Coe, N. and Yeung, H.W-c (2002) Global production networks and the analysis of economic development.
Review of International Political Economy, 9(3).

Hughes, A., Wrigley, N. and Buttle, M. (2008)  Global production networks, ethical campaigning, and the embeddedness of responsible governance. 
Journal of Economic Geography.

Swyngedouwa, E. (2004) Globalisation or 'glocalisation'? Networks, territories and rescaling.
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 17(1).

Chapter Four
Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction'

Drori, G.S. (2007) Information society as a global policy agenda: What does it tell us about the age of globalization?. 
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 48(4): 297-316.

Harvey, D. (2006) Neo-liberalism as creative destruction.
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 88(2):145-58.

McCann, P. (2008) Globalization and economic geography: the world is curved, not flat. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 1(3).

Rychen, F. and Zimmermann, J.B. (2008) Clusters in the global knowledge-based economy: knowledge gatekeepers and temporary proximity.
Regional Studies 42(6).

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

Staples, C.L. (2008) Cross border acquisitions and board globalization in the world's largest TNCS, 1995–2005.
Sociological Quarterly, February, 49(1): 31-51.

Yeung, H. W-c. (2009) Transnational corporations, global production networks, and urban and regional development: A geographer's perspective on multinational enterprises and the global economy.
Growth & Change, June 40(2).

Chapter Six
The State Really Does Matter

Bird, A. and Fang, T. (2009) Editorial: Cross cultural management in the age of globalization. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management ,9.

Cerny, P.G. (2010) The competition state today: from raison d'etat to raison du Monde.
Policy Studies, 31(1).

Harris, J. (2009) Statist globalization in China, Russia and the Gulf States. 
Science & Society, January, 73(1).

Jessop, B. (2010) The 'return' of the national state in the current crisis of the world market.
Capital & Class, 34(38).

Kaya, Y. (2010) Globalization and industrialization in 64 developing countries, 1980–2003.
Social Forces, 88(3).

Liang, W. (2007) China: Globalization and the emergence of a new status quo power?.
Asian Perspective, 31(4).

Peck, J. and Theodore, N. (2007) Variegated capitalism.
Progress in Human Geography, 31.

Snowdon, B. (2007) Competitive advantage revisited: Michael Porter on strategy and competitiveness.
Journal of Management Inquiry, 16(3): 256-73.

Whalley, J. (2007) Globalisation and values.
World Economy Volume, 31(11).

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

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

Chapter Eight
'Making Holes in the Ground': The Extractive Industries

Bridge, G. and Wood, A. (2005) Geographies of knowledge, practices of globalization: learning from the oil exploration and production industry.
Area, 37(2).

Gua, J., Humphreya, J. and Messnerb, D. (2008) Global governance and developing countries: The implications of the rise of China.
World Development Volume, February,36(2).

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

Feagan, R. (2007) The place of food: mapping out the ‘local’ in local food systems’.
Progress in Human Geography, February, 31(1): 23-42.

Fridell, M., Hudson, I. and Hudson, M. (2008) With friends like these: The corporate response to fair trade coffee.
Review of Radical Political Economics,40(8).

Levi, M. and Linton, A. (2003) Fair trade: A cup at a time?
Politics & Society, September, 31(3): 407-32.

Winter, M. (2005) Geographies of food: agro-food geographies - food, nature, farmers and agency. Progress in Human Geography, October, 29(5): 609-17.

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

Knutsen, H.M. (2003) Globalisation and the garment industry in Sri Lanka.
Journal of Contemporary Asia, May, 33(2).

Chapter Eleven
'Wheels of Change': The Automobile Industry

Kim, H-Y. and McCann, P. (2008) Supply chains and locational adjustment in the global automotive industry.
Policy Studies, September, 29(3).

Sturgeon, T.,  Van Biesebroeck, J. and Gereffi, G. (2007) Value chains, networks and clusters: reframing the global automotive industry.
Journal of Economic Geography 8 (3).

Urry, J. (2004) The `system' of automobility. 
Theory, Culture & Society, August, 21(4/5).

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

Jen, S. (2007) ‘Sovereign wealth funds.
World Economics 8(4).

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

Cowen, D. (2010) A geography of logistics: Market authority and the security of supply chains. 
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, July, 100(3).

Kraemer, K.L., Gibbs, J. and Dedrick, J. (2005) Impacts of globalization on e-commerce use and firm performance: A cross-country investigation.
Information Society, November, 21(5).

O’Connor, K. (2010) Global city regions and the location of logistics activity.
Journal of Transport Geography, May, 18(3).

Tacconelli, W. and Wrigley, N.  (2009) Organizational challenges and strategic responses of retail TNCs in post-WTO-entry China. 
Economic Geography, January, 85(1).

Wrigley, N., Coe, N.M. and Currah, A. (2005) Globalizing retail: conceptualizing the distribution-based transnational corporation (TNC).
Progress in Human Geography, August, 29(4).
Chapter Fourteen
'Capturing Value' within Global Production Networks

Coe, N.M., Hess, M., Yeung, H. W-c., Dicken, P. and Henderson, J. (2004) Globalizing regional development: a global production networks perspective.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, December, 29(4).

Coe, N.M., Dicken, P., Hess, M. and Yeung, H. W-C. (2010) Making connections: Global production networks and world city networks.
Global Networks, January, 10(1): 138-49.

Hesse, M., Rodrigue, J-P. (2006) Global production networks and the role of logistics and transportation.
Growth & Change, December, 37(4).

Rudra, N. (2005) Are workers in the developing world winners or losers in the current era of globalization?
Studies in Comparative International Development, 40 (3): 29-64.

Yeung, H. W-C. (2009) Transnational corporations, global production networks, and urban and regional development: A geographer's perspective on multinational enterprises and the global economy. 
Growth & Change, June, 40(2).

Chapter Fifteen
'Destroying Value': Environmental Impacts of Global Production Networks

Barkin, S. (2003) The counterintuitive relationship between globalization and climate change.
Global Environmental Politics, August, 3(3).

Brimblecombe, P. (2005) The globalization of local air pollution.
Globalizations, December, 2(3).

Gallagher, K.P. (2009) Economic globalization and the environment.
Annual Review of Environment & Resources, 34(1): 279-304.

Kütting, G. (2007) Environment, development, and the global perspective: From critical security to critical globalization. Nature & Culture, March, 2(1): 49-66.

Stevis, D. (2005) The globalizations of the environment.
Globalizations, December, 2(3): 323-33.

Valadbigi, A. and Ghobadi, S.(2010) Sustainable development and environmental challenges.
European Journal of Social Science, April, 13(4): 542-48.

Chapter Sixteen
Winning and Losing: Where You Live Really Matters

Dogan, M. (2004) Four hundred giant cities atop the world.
International Social Science Journal, September, 56(181).

Giulianotti, R. and Robertson, R. (2006) Glocalization, globalization and migration.
International Sociology, March, 21(2): 171-98.

Kacowicz, A.M. (2007) Globalization, poverty, and the North–South divide.
International Studies Review, December, 9(4).

Prabhakar, A. C. (2003) A critical reflection on globalisation and inequality: A new approach to the development of the South.
African & Asian Studies, 2(3).

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).

Ravallion, M. (2003) The debate on globalization, poverty and inequality: Why measurement matters.
International Affairs, July, 79(4).

Wade, R. (2004) Is globalization reducing poverty and inequality?.
World Development, April, 32(4).

Chapter Seventeen
Making the World a Better Place

Bowden, B. (2006) Civil society, the state, and the limits to global civil society.
Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations, April, 20(2).

Higgott, R., Erman, E. (2010) Deliberative global governance and the question of legitimacy: what can we learn from the WTO?.
Review of International Studies, April, 36 (2).

Kumar, K. (2008)  Civil society, globalization, and global civil society.
Journal of Civil Society, June, 4(1).

Rabet, D. (2009) Human rights and globalization: The myth of corporate social responsibility?’
Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, May, 1(2).

Sethi, S.P. (2002) Corporate codes of conduct and the success of globalization.
Ethics & International Affairs, 16(1).