GEOG 364 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Economic Geography, Kenichi Ohmae, Deindustrialization
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Communications costs had started to fall spread of internet; changing strategies. Capitalism failure fall of the berlin wall (neo-capitalism as superior) The great doubling (when china joined the world market) Prehistories of globalization: corporate structure as spatial structure: the new international division of labor- 1990. Nidl: production increasingly organized on internaltional cale, not within nationsional economies. The sourcing strategies of rich country producers: developing countries taking an increasing share of production, manufacturing employment: - initially, the nic(hk, south. Korea, taiwan, singapore) later: malaysia, indonesia, thailand, china. Hymer, frobel er al on nidl: corporate hierarchies mapping onto geographical regions: - Major cities(london, new york): long term, strategic planning; headquarters regional capital (brussel, denver, montreal) and management dicisions emi- periphery (eg mexico, south korea, taiwan) : production and routine work. Our(cid:272)i(cid:374)g fro(cid:373) (cid:373)ultiple (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tries; e(cid:373)erge(cid:374)(cid:272)e of (cid:272)o(cid:373)posite produ(cid:272)ts like the (cid:862)(cid:449)orld (cid:272)ar(cid:863)
