Transnational corporations and 'obligated embeddedness': foreign direct investment in China's automobile industry

被引:124
作者
Liu, Weidong [1 ]
Dicken, Peter
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Manchester, Sch Environm & Dev, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
来源
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE | 2006年 / 38卷 / 07期
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10.1068/a37206
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
With the aid of an empirical case study of the automobile industry in China, we explore how, under certain political-economic conditions, the investments of transnational corporations (TNCs) can be shaped to meet the state's objectives. We develop the concept of 'obligated embeddedness' to capture the dynamics of this process. We show that foreign direct investment in the automobile industry in China is a type of market-led and embedded investment which is characterised by joint ventures and the follow-up network configurations. However, to achieve such obligated embeddedness on the part of TNCs-and for the state and its citizens to gain its benefits-the state not only has to have the theoretical capacity to control access to assets located within its territory, but also the power actually to determine such access.
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页码:1229 / 1247
页数:19
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