![]() ![]() Since its initial inception almost two decades ago, global production network (GPN) research has developed into a vibrant, capacious and heterogeneous research field. ![]() Introduction: GPN research in the context of a changing global economy We believe such cross-domain fertilisation can help realize GPN 2.0’s potential for explaining uneven development in an interconnected world economy.ġ. Concomitantly, considerable effort in the literature has gone into expanding the remit of GPN research in different directions, and we thus engage with five domains or ‘constituent outsides’ that relate to the state, finance, labour, environment and development. We suggest that the analytical purchase of this recent work is greater in research that has continued to keep a tight focus on the causal links between the organizational configurations of global production networks and uneven development. In line with the core aim of the special issue to push for new conceptual advances, the paper focuses on the central elements of GPN theory to showcase recent rethinking related to the delimiting of global production networks, underlying political-economic drivers, actor-specific strategies and regional/national development outcomes. In this framing paper for the special issue, we map significant research on global production networks during the past decade in economic geography and adjacent fields. ![]()
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