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City networks and commodity chains: identifying global flows and local connections in Ho Chi Minh City
Author(s) -
VIND INGEBORG,
FOLD NIELS
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
global networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.685
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1471-0374
pISSN - 1470-2266
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2010.00274.x
Subject(s) - ho chi minh , commodity , commodity chain , global city , business , economic geography , geography , economics , cartography , production (economics) , microeconomics , archaeology , scale (ratio) , finance
Any analytical framework for understanding actual forms of the intensified incorporation of cities into the world economy needs to go beyond the exclusive focus on advanced producer services, which is characteristic of most of the World City Network (WCN) approach. Simultaneously, an account of the role of advanced producer services will strengthen Global Commodity Chain (GCC) analysis. A combination of the literatures on WCN and GCC can contribute to a broader conceptualization of the connections and connectivities of global cities. In addition, a combined approach will improve our understanding of globalization processes within many so‐called ‘third‐world’ cities that are experiencing booms in export‐oriented industrialization and in migration from rural hinterlands as they are being integrated into Global Commodity Chains. We illustrate our argument with insights from GCC analyses of the electronics industry located in Ho Chi Minh City and the agricultural sector in its rural hinterland, the Mekong Delta.