Strategic coupling and institutional innovation in times of upheavals: the industrial chain chief model in Zhejiang, China

Author:

Gong Huiwen123,Hassink Robert4ORCID,Wang Cassandra C5

Affiliation:

1. Environmental Social Science Department , Eawag, 8600 Duebendorf , Switzerland

2. Institute of Geography & CRED, University of Bern , CH-3012 Bern , Switzerland

3. CIRCLE, Lund University , 22362 Lund , Sweden

4. Department of Geography , 24098 Kiel University , Germany

5. School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University , 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, 310027 China

Abstract

Abstract For regions that are deeply integrated into the global economy, the question of how to remain competitive and resilient in times of uncertainty is a key concern. While strategic coupling is a useful concept for understanding local-global economic dynamics, the idea that a region can simultaneously couple into multiple production networks organised at different spatial scales and that regional actors can increase their autonomy by creatively combining different coupling scenarios has been little explored. This paper explores how regional institutional innovations can facilitate such multiple couplings. We focus on the industrial chain chief model in China’s Zhejiang province, which emerged against the backdrop of the U.S.-China trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that this institutional innovation offers a different way of thinking for regions that have long been exposed to the influence of globalisation, and that it increases the agency of local actors in global production networks.

Funder

National Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Economics and Econometrics,Sociology and Political Science,Geography, Planning and Development

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