Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks: Changes in the International Political Economy

This book brings together leading scholars of international political economy to develop innovative conceptual models of contemporary capitalism. It examines the rise of Global value chains and global production networks as dominant features of the global economic system, and uses these as explanatory models for the latest phase of global economic restructuring.

This book was published as a special issue of the Review of International Political Economy.

Jeffrey Neilson is Senior Lecturer in economic and environmental geography at the University of Sydney, where he researches economic development and natural resource management in Southeast Asia, with a primary focus on Indonesia.

Bill Pritchard is an Associate Professor in human geography at the University of Sydney, where he specialises in agriculture, food and rural places. Professor Pritchard is interested in the ways that global and local processes are transforming places, industries and people’s lives.

Henry Yeung is a Professor of economic geography at the National University of Singapore. His research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations, global production networks and global value chains, East Asian firms and developmental states in the global economy.