Gateway Cities in Global Production Networks

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of gateway cities in contemporary circuits of global production. Apart from facilitating the interlinking of economic activities in the surrounding regions with the global economy, gateway cities have enormous implications for how certain regions participate in the global economy. Based on a case study of the oil and gas industry in Southeast Asia the book maps gateway cities, explores why these cities have come to occupy a gateway role, and evaluates their implications for regional economic development. To this aim, the book links components from research on the World City Network with Global Production Network research and demonstrates how this intersection creates synergies for studying the role of cities in economic globalization. The main audiences that this book appeals to are researchers and students interested in debates on regional development and the role of cities in the global economy. The book is also attractive toscholars interested in the organization of extractive industries.

Auteur

Dr. Moritz Breul works as a research fellow at the Institute of Geography at the University of Cologne, where he received his Ph.D. in 2019. During his doctorate he was a visiting research fellow at the National University of Singapore in the Department of Geography (2016) and at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) in the Economic Research Center in Jakarta (2017). Before starting his position at the University of Cologne, Moritz Breul received a Master degree in Economic Geography from the University of Hanover and a Bachelor degree in Human Geography from the University of Muenster. His major research interests lie in cities in globalization, global production networks, global value chains, regional economic development, foreign direct investments, regional economic linkages in the Global South, the spatial evolution of industries.

Contenu
Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Conceptual framework

2.1 World City Networks

2.2 Global Production Networks

2.3 Gateway Cities in Global Production Networks

3 Research design

3.1 Selection of the case study: The oil and gas industry in Southeast Asia

3.2 Data and methodology

3.2.1 Quantitative empirical approach: Bottom-up world city research

3.2.2 Qualitative empirical approach: Multi-site case study

4 Cities as regional nodes in global value chains: the example of the oil and gas industry in Southeast Asia

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Conceptual framework

4.2.1 World City research and the missing regional dimension

4.2.2 The Gateway City concept

4.3 Research design

4.3.1 'Bottom-up'-Approach

4.3.2 The upstream segment of the oil and gas value chain

4.3.3 Data

4.4 Results

4.4.1 From wells to regional command centers

4.4.2 From wells to regional service centers

4.5 Concluding discussion

5 An intermediate step to resource peripheries: The strategic coupling of gateway cities in the upstream oil and gas GPN

5.1 Introduction

5.2 State of the art

5.2.1 The strategic coupling between regions and GPNs

5.2.2 Extractive GPNs, the strategic coupling of commodity source regions and gateway cities

5.2.3 Multiple roles of states in the strategic coupling process of extractive GPNs

5.3 The strategic coupling of gateway cities in the upstream oil and gas GPN

5.3.1 Singapore in the upstream oil and gas GPN

5.3.2 Jakarta in the upstream oil and gas GPN

5.4 Discussion and concluding remarks

6 Filtering strategic coupling: territorial intermediaries in oil and gas global production networks in Southeast Asia

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Strategic coupling and regional economic development

6.2.1 Gateway cities in GPNs

6.3 A case study of Vietnam and Indonesia in the oil and gas GPN

6.4 The strategic coupling of Vietnam and Indonesia in the oil and gas GPN

6.4.1 Vietnam

6.4.2 Indonesia

6.5 Relationship between the limited prospects of coupling and the role of Singapore in the GPN

6.5.1 Regional assets as a filter

6.5.2 Institutional filtering process

6.5.3 Corporate filtering process 6.7 Conclusion

7 Concluding discussion

7.1 Answering the research questions 7.2 Conceptual contributions to research on global networks in Economic Geography

7.3 Policy implications

7.4 Reflections and recommendations for future research Literature references