Interconnected worlds : global electronics and production networks in East Asia / Henry Wai-chung Yeung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeung, Henry Wai-Chung, author.

Series:

Innovation and Technology in the World Economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic industries--Equipment and supplies.

Electronic industries.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The global electronics industry is one of the most innovation-driven and technology-intensive sectors in the contemporary world economy. From semiconductors to end products, complex transnational production and value-generating activities have integrated diverse macro-regions and national economies worldwide into the "interconnected worlds" of global electronics. This book argues that the current era of interconnected worlds started in the early 1990s when electronics production moved from systems dominated by lead firms in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan towards increasingly globalized and cross-macro-regional electronics manufacturing centered in East Asia. By the 2010s, this co-evolution of production network complexity transformed global electronics, through which lead firms from South Korea, Taiwan, and China integrated East Asia into the interconnected worlds of electronics production across the globe. Drawing on literature on the electronics industry, new empirical material comprising custom datasets, and extensive personal interviews, this book examines through a "network" approach the co-evolution of globalized electronics production centered in East Asia across different national economies and sub-national regions. With comprehensive analysis up to 2021, Yeung analyzes the geographical configurations ("where"), organizational strategies ("how"), and causal drivers ("why") of global production networks, setting a definitive benchmark into the dynamic transformations in global electronics and other globalized industries. The book will serve as a crucial resource for academic and policy research, offering a conceptual, empirically driven grounding in the theory of these networks that has become highly influential across the social sciences.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Worlds of Electronics: From National Innovations to Global Production

Chapter 2 Changing Fortunes in Global Electronics: A Brief History

Chapter 3 Global Production Networks: A Theory of Interconnected Worlds

Chapter 4 Geographical Configurations of Global Electronics Centered in East Asia

Chapter 5 Firm Strategies and Organizational Innovations in Production Networks

Chapter 6 Explaining Production Networks: Causal Drivers and Competitive Dynamics

Chapter 7 Whither (De-)Globalized Electronics Production in the 2020s? Current Trajectories and Future Agendas

Appendix A IHS Markit/Informa Tech Custom Dataset, 2015 and 2018

Appendix B Methodology of the Study, 2016–2021

Appendix C Full Tables

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5036-3223-7

OCLC:

1334344584