An intermediate step to resource peripheries: The strategic coupling of gateway cities in the upstream oil and gas GPN

Breul, Moritz; Diez, Javier Revilla

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.022

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“…Some of these cities also take up a role as gateway cities or focal points in regionalizations of the petrochemical industry (Brown et al 2010). Singapore, for example, has been shown to be a gateway city in upstream oil and gas global production networks, and has a long history as a refinery and transport and logistics hub for the petrochemical industry (Breul and Diez 2018). Finally, in the territorial configuration of the global petrochemical industry, we identify the reorientation from supply-or demand-side advantages to purely financial considerations, leading to global firm networks mimicking geographies of taxation (Sigler et al 2020).…”

Section: Results: Interlocking Network In the Petrochemical Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another recent development, building on the idea of multiple globalizations, is the attempt to integrate the world city network with global production networks in regionalizations of specific industries (Brown et al 2010). The main idea is that specific gateway cities connect regional hinterlands to the global flows of the world city network through the initial (upstream) segments of global production networks (Breul and Diez 2018;Scholvin, Breul, and Diez 2019). Finally, THOFCs have also recently been identified as a specific kind of nodes in global firm networks.…”

Section: World City Network-spatial Corporate Interlockingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Integration and Isolation in the Global Petrochemical Industry: A Multiscalar Corporate Network Analysis

Verbeek

Mah

2020

Economic Geography

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Section: Results: Interlocking Network In the Petrochemical Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: World City Network-spatial Corporate Interlockingmentioning

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Integration and Isolation in the Global Petrochemical Industry: A Multiscalar Corporate Network Analysis

Verbeek

Mah

2020

Economic Geography

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“…Empirical findings have shown how different sets of regional institutions shape varying developmental outcomes of GPN coupling in the case of the oil and gas industry (Breul & Revilla Diez, 2018). Parallels can be detected between tourism and the extractive industries (Garland, 2008): just as with extractive industries, nature tourism is based on a natural resource that needs to be tapped by means of investment in infrastructure.…”

Section: Local Institutions In Gpn Debatesmentioning

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How much remains? Local value capture from tourism in Zambezi, Namibia

Kalvelage

Diez

Bollig

2020

Tourism Geographies

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High hopes are pinned on tourism and its catalytic potential to foster growth in remote rural areas. In the Zambezi region of northeastern Namibia, tourism plays a key role in the design of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes for nature conservation. Local communities form conservancies, small village-based entities of bottom-up nature conservation activities. These conservancies are granted rights for the use of natural resources, which are then transferred to tourism investors and trophy-hunting companies. Thus, conservancies partly determine tourism's developmental outcomes on a local level. By applying a global production network (GPN) approach, the objective is, first, to assess how much of the turnover generated in the Zambezi region remains in the region and, second, to examine the extent to which conservancies, as newly formed local institutions, enable communities to capture value from tourism. A mixed-methods approach is applied, using a business survey, qualitative interview data and financial reports which allow a calculation of value capture. Roughly 20% of the value generated by the tourism industry in the Zambezi region is captured locally. In addition, conservancies play a key role in the GPN, acting as hinges between the local and the global: conservancies are involved in the production of the resource, mediate in strategic coupling processes and use regulatory and bargaining power to capture value. Conservancies therefore have the potential to increase local gains from tourism. On the one hand, these results underline the importance of local institutions for value capture in GPN analysis. On the other hand, as local linkages are limited and the level of local ownership is low, policies are needed that ensure the participation of local residents beyond direct transfer payments from private enterprises to communities.

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“…As discussed above, studies recently arose seeking to understand the strategic role intermediary cities of middle-income countries can play by linking local regions to the global economy (Breul & Revilla Diez, 2018;Scholvin et al, 2017). It happens since the current world is not only fragmented, dispersed, and structured in local and global networks of many actors and institutions.…”

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Targeting economic development with science and technology parks and gateway cities: Schumpeterian possibilities of new developmental states in fostering local and global development

Mello

Schapiro

Marconi

2020

Brazil. J. Polit. Econ.

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ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate how innovative environments as a local strategic policy with particular features of the new entrepreneurial developmental state associated to what we call a Schumpeterian-style of policy can transform regions of middle-income countries, like Brazil. In particular, we sought to answer the following research question: how the São José dos Campos Science and Technology Park (STP-SJC) has been used as a tool to promote regional development? To answer it, having a logical model of this policy in perspective, we focus on this environment’s main objectives and empirically we performed a case study applying process tracing methodology.

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An intermediate step to resource peripheries: The strategic coupling of gateway cities in the upstream oil and gas GPN

Cited by 46 publications

References 35 publications

Integration and Isolation in the Global Petrochemical Industry: A Multiscalar Corporate Network Analysis

Integration and Isolation in the Global Petrochemical Industry: A Multiscalar Corporate Network Analysis

How much remains? Local value capture from tourism in Zambezi, Namibia

Targeting economic development with science and technology parks and gateway cities: Schumpeterian possibilities of new developmental states in fostering local and global development

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