GLBL ST 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Multinational Corporation, Barcode System, Tacit Knowledge
Document Summary
Political economy approach: uneven development and capitalism go hand in hand. Development and underdevelopment comes in different forms, and occur at different scales. Center of gravity has shifted during the last couple of decades due to asia. The process through which a commodity is produced, distributed and consumed. Commodity: ex. ) high education, entertainment, football, computers. Apple, microsoft (around developing and developed countries; complex production route), nike, starbucks. States: global triad of us, eu, and china; brics (brazil, russia, india, china, and. South africa)- key developmental states so far; japan and iran are pretty important states as well. Civil society organizations: falls within the national scale ex. ) Labor: more focused on the place; more place bounded. Consumers: there is a big disconnect between commodities consumed and us as consumers. The involvement of these five key actors make gpns simultaneously economic and political phenomena.
