A site of transnationalism in the "Ungrounded Empire":Taipei as an interface city in the cross-border business networks
Resource
Geoforum 36,654-666
Journal
Geoforum
Pages
654-666
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
DOI
246246/2006111501254481
Abstract
This paper explores the dynamics of the economic development of Taipei City under conditions of globalization. Although Taipei City had undergone rapid industrialization & exploited the rural–urban division of labor since at least the 1960s, the citys economic base changed dramatically after 1980. Initiating a process of industrial restructuring, the nation state encouraged high technology industries to help upgrade Taipei Citys role within global production chains. It was the transnational connection that kept regional growth within high value-added activities. Instead of relying on a few major transnational corporations as the key agents of internationalization, Taipei City transformed itself into a node for high-technology knowledge, which connected the city with high-technology hubs elsewhere, & to Silicon Valley in particular, through transnational technical communities. At the same time, companies headquartered in the city extended their production chains across the Taiwan Strait to locate production facilities in the major coastal cities of mainland China. In consequence, Taipei City became a nodal city in these cross-border connections. These
developments illustrate the limits of global city discourses which fail to pay sufficient attention to the role of developmental states
and transnationalism in the process of global transformation.
Subjects
Taipei City
Interface city
Global city
Transnationalism
Cross-border business networks
SDGs
Type
journal article
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