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Global production networks and regional development: Thai regional development beyond the Bangkok metropolis?

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  • Craig Wheway
  • Titiyawadee Punmanee

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There is a growing recognition that regional growth outside major urban centres should not – indeed cannot – be marginalized or ignored. In Europe, especially, important work now considers the growing role and importance of small and medium-sized cities in terms of spatial flows and networks and alternative pathways to economic growth than the city-centric, mega-urban approach. However, despite their prominence in economy geography, there is little mention of global production networks in this debate; and there has been much less focus on national contexts that lie beyond the traditional Euro-American heartlands of neoliberal capitalism. In the paper we address this issue by analysing the province of Korat in the north-east Thailand, revealing how Korat was unprepared for an influx of new firms; however, we note the untapped potential of peripheral regions to contribute to ameliorating regional inequalities.

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  • Craig Wheway & Titiyawadee Punmanee, 2017. "Global production networks and regional development: Thai regional development beyond the Bangkok metropolis?," Regional Studies, Regional Science, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 4(1), pages 146-153, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:146-153
    DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2017.1333919
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