Instructor: Dr. Truong Thi Kim Chuyen

Email: worldeconomicgeography@gmail.com

Weblog: www.socialscience09.wordpress.com

World Economic GeographyPaul Knox (2008),The geography of the world

economy, Routledge; 5th editionNeil M.Coe, Phillip F Kelly, Henry W.C. Yeung (2007),

Economic Geography, Blackwell PublishingReadings: Fellmann – Getis - Getis (1998). Human

Geography: Landscapes of Human Activities. Brown & Benchmark.

Course OutlineThe geography of the

world economyEconomic Geography

Conceptual foundations

01/ Conceptual foundations Page 1-25

Dynamics of economic space

02/ The changing world economy04/ Patterns of Development and Change05/ Services going global

03/ Commodity chainsPage 87-11504’/ Technology and agglomeration

Actors in economic space

10/ International and supranational institutionalized integration

06/ The state Page 187-219

07/ The transnational corporationPage 223-25108/ Labour power Page 254-28109/ Consumption

07/ The transnational 07/ The transnational corporation corporation

- - how does the global firm keep it all how does the global firm keep it all together?together?Aims:

To question the claim that transnational corporations are really “global’

To understand how firms organize complex global activities

To explore the variety of organizational forms used by transnational corporations

To appreciate the inherent limits to the global reach of firms

OUTLINEOUTLINE

Introduction The Myth of being everywhere, Effortessly Revisisting chains and networks: the basic building

blocks of TNCs Organizing transnational economic activities 1: Intra-

firm relationships Organizing transnational economic activities 2: Intra-

firm relationships The limits to global reach? Summary

SummarySummary

TNCs as a system of both internal (intra-firm) and external (inter-firm) production networks.