全球与地方的紧张关系：公司和国家在全球空间经济的定位外文翻译.docVIP

Peter Dicken * Global-Local Tensions: Firms and States in the Global Space-Economy Economic Geography Vol. 70, Issue 2, Apr. 1994, pp. 101-128 Index Abstract [Web 1] Introduction An Analytical Point of Entry: Production Chains and Relational Networks Firm-Firm Competition: The Changing World of the Transnational Corporation State-State Interaction: The Emergence of the “Competition State” [Web 2] Firm-State Interactions: Dynamic Bargaining Relationships Conclusion: The Global-Local, Debate Revisited [Web 3] ?? References Abstract: A key issue facing researchers of economic, political, social, and cultural change is the dialectical tension between globalizing and localizing processes. From an economic geography perspective, a major question concerns the relationship between the globalizing tendencies of many business firms and the prospects for a genuinely local economic development, particularly in light of the organizational and technological changes associated with the alleged transition to a post-Fordist world. This paper addresses a specific aspect of the “global-local nexus” that has not been well developed in the geographic literature: the relationships between transnational corporations and nation-states. Each can be conceptualized as highly embedded interacting networks. Firms and states are locked in competitive struggles. The competitive strategies they employ are both diverse and the outcome of contested power relations, internal and external. Increasingly, too, they involve various forms of collaborative relationship. Concrete spatial outcomes, therefore, reflect complex competitive and bargaining relationships between and within firms, between and within states, and between firms and states. Introduction These are exciting and challenging times in economic geography, as we grapple with the problem of understanding the major transformations in the way economic activities are organized and reorganized. Not only does the pace of change pose diffic