Beyond strategic coupling: reassessing the firm-region nexus in global production networks
批判性评估全球生产网络研究，特别是战略耦合概念对区域发展的贡献，并利用演化经济地理学和路径依赖理论，提出更广泛的耦合、再耦合与解耦合过程分析框架。
Global Production Networks (GPNs) have become a key focus of research in economic geography and related fields in recent years. This article has two main aims. First, I offer a critical appraisal of GPN research, focusing on its contribution to the rethinking of regional development processes and the notion of ‘strategic coupling’ in particular. Second, the article aims to forge a new set of links between GPNs and evolutionary economic geography (EEG), which has also attracted considerable recent interest as a framework for assessing the evolution of economic landscapes. In particular, I use evolutionary approaches and the concept of path dependence to develop a broader and deeper conception of the range of coupling, recoupling and decoupling processes that take place between regions and GPNs, going beyond strategic coupling per se.