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Competitive Advantage in Global Production Networks: Air Freight Services and the Electronics Industry in Southeast Asia

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  • John T. Bowen
  • Thomas R. Leinbach

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Drawing upon Porter’s diamond theory of competitive advantage and recent work on global production networks (GPNs), this article examines the causes and consequences of spatially uneven air freight services. Air freight flows have grown rapidly because airborne trade enables firms to reconcile time-based competition and spatially dispersed production. The importance of air freight services in this regard is particularly relevant to electronics manufacturers. Case studies of freight forwarders—the traditional intermediaries between the firms that send and receive goods by air and the airlines that actually move air freight from city to city—in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines are used to demonstrate the manner in which firms and places attain a competitive advantage in the performance of these services and how geographic variation in air freight services, in turn, affects the operations and performance of electronics firms. Finally, the article discusses the importance of these services in mediating the ability of firms and places to move to new positions along the value chains of which they are a part as their former roles become untenable.

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  • John T. Bowen & Thomas R. Leinbach, 2006. "Competitive Advantage in Global Production Networks: Air Freight Services and the Electronics Industry in Southeast Asia," Economic Geography, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 82(2), pages 147-166, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:recgxx:v:82:y:2006:i:2:p:147-166
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2006.tb00294.x
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    1. Vincent Frigant, 2007. "L'impact de la production modulaire sur l'approfondissement de la Division Internationale des Processus Productifs (DIPP)," Revue d'économie politique, Dalloz, vol. 117(6), pages 937-961.
    2. Veronika Kulmer & Michael Kernitzkyi & Judith Köberl & Andreas Niederl, 2015. "Global Value Chains: Implications for the Austrian economy," FIW Research Reports series VI-003, FIW.
    3. Bowen, John T., 2008. "Moving places: the geography of warehousing in the US," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 16(6), pages 379-387.
    4. Neil M. Coe & Martin Hess, 2013. "Economic and social upgrading in global logistics," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series ctg-2013-38, GDI, The University of Manchester.
    5. Anushka Wijesinha & Deshal de Mel, 2012. "Liberalization of Air Services in South Asia: Prospects and Challenges," Chapters, in: Sultan Hafeez Rahman & Sridhar Khatri & Hans-Peter Brunner (ed.), Regional Integration and Economic Development in South Asia, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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