Regional development and global production networks: the case of the semiconductor industry in Wales
通过威尔士半导体产业的案例，研究全球生产网络与区域经济发展的关系，发现跨国公司虽通过工资、出口和知识效应促进经济，但其国际导向的贸易模式限制了更深层次的区域发展。
This article explores the interface between global production networks and regional economic development. The case study focuses on the semiconductor industry in Wales where multinational enterprises are, with regional institutions, developing deeper forms of regional embeddedness. Although these firms boost the Welsh and UK economies through wage, export and knowledge effects, their scope to support more fundamental regional development is constrained by their internationally focused trade patterns. The case raises issues as to how the semiconductor industry might, in seeking to advance regional development, improve domestic up- and downstream supply chain integration, whilst not undermining its international cooperation and trade.