Worlds of electronics : from national innovations to global production -- Changing fortunes in global electronics : a brief history -- Global production networks : a theory of interconnected worlds -- Geographical configurations of global electronics centered in East Asia -- Firm strategies and...

Institutions across East Asia are in flux as a result of market pressures and political shifts. Some changes have been adaptive while others appear to erode institutional capacity. This framework article introduces the Special Issue, developing an analytic synthesis of scholarship on...

Geography: how do we think spatially? -- The economy: what does it mean? -- Dynamics of capitalism: why is economic growth so uneven? -- Networks: how is the world economy interconnected? -- Transnational corporations: how do they keep it all together? -- Labour: are migrant workers the new...