Theory of Regional Development for PhD students - MPGS0089

• Title: Teorie regionálního rozvoje pro PGS
• Czech title: Teorie regionálního rozvoje pro PGS
• Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2014
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 0
• Hours per week, examination: 0/0, Ex [HS]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech, English
• Note: course is intended for doctoral students only; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Jiří Blažek, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: prof. RNDr. Jiří Blažek, Ph.D. (13.10.2020)

• Příčiny a význam regionálních rozdílů v kontextu současných dvou dominantních škol TRR, tj. GVC/GPN a RIS.
• Hlavní diferenciační a nivelizační procesy regionálního vývoje a možnosti jejich typologie.
• Možnosti klasifikace teorií regionálního rozvoje.
• Hlavní metodologické přístupy v rámci teorií regionálního rozvoje.
• Charakteristika a kritika hlavních skupin teorií regionálního rozvoje.

Literature

Last update: prof. RNDr. Jiří Blažek, Ph.D. (13.10.2020)

Bathelt, H., Malmberg, A., and Maskell, P. 2004. Clusters and knowledge: Local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation. Progress in Human Geography 28:31–56.

Blažek, J. 2016. Towards a typology of repositioning strategies of GVC/GPN suppliers: The case of functional upgrading and downgrading. Journal of Economic Geography 16:849–869.

Boschma, R. 2017. Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: A research agenda. Regional Studies 51:351–364.

Coe, N. M., Hess, M., Yeung, H. W-c., Dicken, P., and Henderson, J. 2004. “Globalizing” regional development: A global production networks perspective. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29:468–484.

Coe, N. M., and Yeung, H. W-c. 2019. Global production networks: Mapping recent conceptual developments. Journal of Economic Geography 19:775–801.

Cooke, P. 2001. Regional innovation systems, clusters and the knowledge economy. Industrial and Corporate Change 10(4):945–974.

Gereffi, G. 2014. Global value chains in a post-Washington Consensus world. Review of International Political Economy 21:9–37.

Horner, R. 2014. Strategic decoupling, recoupling and global production networks: India’s pharmaceutical industry. Journal of Economic Geography 14:1117–1140.

Humphrey, J., and Schmitz, H. 2002. How does insertion in global value chains affect upgrading in industrial clusters? Regional Studies 36:1017–1027.

MacKinnon, D. 2012. Beyond strategic coupling: Reassessing the firm-region nexus in global production networks. Journal of Economic Geography 12:227–245.

Pickles, J., Smith, A., Buček, M., Roukova, P. and Begg, R. 2006. Upgrading, changing competitive pressures, and diverse practices in the East and Central European apparel industry. Environment and Planning A 38:2305–2324.

Ponte, S., and Ewert, J. 2009. Which way is “up” in upgrading? Trajectories of change in the value chain for South African wine. World Development 37:1637–1650.

Sotarauta, M., and Beer, A. 2017. Governance, agency and place leadership: Lessons from a cross-national analysis. Regional Studies 51:210–223.

Tokatli, N. 2013. Toward a better understanding of the apparel industry: A critique of the upgrading literature. Journal of Economic Geography 13:993–1011.

Yeung, H. W-c. 2015. Regional development in the global economy: A dynamic perspective of strategic coupling in global production networks. Regional Science Policy & Practice 7:1–23.