英文摘要 |
This article aims to explore the implication and limitation of ”Global Commodity Chains' theory to regional development by investigating Taiwanese IT companies' trans-border investment in Northern Taiwan, Greater Suzhou Area and Greater Dongguan Area. First of all, we argue that attention should be paid to the external connections with other nodes in global networks in investigating particular industrial cluster. Furthermore, we propose the concepts of ”hybrid governed commodity chains” and ”territorially reflexive commodity chains' to modify the original concept of Global Commodity Chains. Finally, we argue that the operation of global production networks relies on the support of territorialized production systems to a certain degree, and the structural division of labor within the commodity chains might be transformed during the process of strengthening the firms' ownership advantages through integrating the trans-locational assets, and hence influences the regional development. |