National development through global production networks? The case of Dongguan, China

The wide-ranging implications of globalised production networks (GPNs) for national varieties of capitalism are only now beginning to be broached by political economists and human geographers. As production processes increasingly striate national political territories, an area in need of further research is the impact of GPNs on developing economies’ state architectures — which have historically utilised state-owned or state-directed industries...