Temporality and the evolution of GPNs: Remaking BHP’s Pilbara iron ore network
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Regional Studies
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
School
School of Business and Law
RAS ID
29052
Funders
Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship
Abstract
Global production networks (GPNs) exist across time as well as space, an idea that is underplayed within GPN theory. To consider how time influences the remaking of the network and region, the paper explores the temporal development of one iron ore GPN in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Its emphasis is on temporality and, drawing upon evolutionary economic geography (EEG), the paper shows that GPNs are created over and with time. This makes a singular contribution to GPN theory by simultaneously explaining the configuration of contemporary networks and in developing an understanding of how actors make and remake networks over and with time.
DOI
10.1080/00343404.2019.1590542
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Comments
Barratt, T., & Ellem, B. (2019). Temporality and the evolution of GPNs: Remaking BHP’s Pilbara iron ore network. Regional Studies, 53(11), 1555-1564.
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