Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany's extraterritorial agency in Namibia's green hydrogen industry

L Kalvelage, B Walker - Journal of Economic Geography, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Amidst increasing geopolitical threats, geo-economic competition, and climate change
concerns, this article reflects on why and how states alter strategic coupling processes …

Geopolitical risks of strategic decoupling and recoupling in the mobile phone production shift from China to Vietnam: Evidence from the Sino-US trade war and COVID …

C Yang, DYT Chan - Applied Geography, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Drawing upon the Global Production Networks (GPN) 2.0 theory, this paper offers
an updated and novel investigation on the geopolitical dynamics and risks of strategic …

Rethinking labour risk in global production networks: Resilience strategies of cruise ship workers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

T Neise, T López, AFA Reksa - Geoforum, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The collapse of the global industry due to the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how
precarious the livelihoods of workers embedded in globalised industries are. In the global …

Driving change in troubling times: security, risk and the state in global production networks

M Hess, R Horner - ZFW–Advances in Economic Geography, 2024‏ - degruyter.com
This editorial revisits the state–global production network (GPN) nexus in times of multiple
crises affecting the global economy and society. Setting the scene, we first reflect on the role …

'Risk on steroids': Investing in the hydrogen economy

OB Hunt, JP Tilsted - … and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
A global energy transition requires alternatives to fossil fuels in energy-intensive industries
and transport sectors, which are particularly reliant on the unique material properties of fossil …

Jenga Capitalism and the Cyber-Energy-Production Plexus: New forms of Risk and Uncertainty that are Resha** Economic Geography

JR Bryson - The Changing Economic Geography of Companies …, 2024‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Risk management is an on-going intra-and inter-firm process that blends macro-and micro-
level processes. The micro-level processes are critical as these reflect the ways in which …

Agency, Temporalities, and the Mediation of COVID within Global Production Networks

C Fuller - Economic Geography, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
While the global production networks (GPNs) approach produces important conceptual
insights into the causal factors influencing GPNs, studies have been less concerned with the …

Contemporary perspectives on uncertainties, risks, and crises in Economic Geography

P Verfürth, T Neise, P Völlers, F Bücken… - … of Companies and …, 2024‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Uncertainties, risks, and crises have become important terms in the 21st century's economic
geography, linking diverse thematic issues such as globalization processes, environmental …

Regional Economic Resilience, Uncertainty, and Fictional Expectations

P Terhorst, H Erkuş - … Geography of Companies and Regions in …, 2024‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter aims to connect the concept of regional economic resilience with that of fictional
expectations about the future. Capitalism is a very dynamic economic system and regions …

Risk Narratives and Reconfigurations of Global Production Networks–The Case of the German Medical Technology Industry

T Neise - The Changing Economic Geography of Companies …, 2024‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Contemporary global production networks are confronted with risks due to their complexity
and current global crises. Managing risk in global production networks has also become a …