Code
3F008808
Duration
01 October 2008 → 18 April 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Economic geography
- Human geography
- Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
- Urban and regional geography
- Other social and economic geography
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Engineering and technology
- Geomatic engineering
Keywords
athletic footwear industry
economic globalization
World City research
advanced producer services
Global Value Chain approach
Project description
This research aims to integrate two globalization paradigms, i.e. the Global Value Chain approach investigating the spatial and organizational structure of transnational production networks, and the world city literature studying global city networks resulting from the inter-firm relations of producer services. The latter play a pivotal role in this integration, and will therefore lead to new insights in contemporary globalization processes.