Wenying Fu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3711097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wenying Fu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wenying |
| FAMILY NAME | Fu |
| SIGNATURE | FU W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5617-4718 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Regional development through simultaneous strategic coupling
This article argues for a more incisive understanding of regional development through examining and explaining the effects of simultaneous strategic coupling. Circumventing firm-centric approaches that underplay dynamic intra-regional asset formation and matching with global production networks (GPNs), this article spotlights how simultaneous coupling with multiple GPNs within the same region is constituted by and generates new interactive effect…
Structural and agentic powers in university-based regional innovation across Chinese core and non-core cities
This study investigates the interplay of structural and agentic power in shaping university-based National Research and Development Institutes (NRDIs) across six Chinese cities. It identifies three dynamics between structural and agentic powers – strong-strong reinforcement, weak-weak constraints and misaligned relations – and examines their impact on innovation governance. Findings highlight how local governments and universities collaborate und…
The making of government-business relationships through state rescaling
Developing artificial intelligence (AI) is a priority on China's state agenda, yet the constitutive state roles in AI development are understudied. Against the background of the coexistence of authoritarianism and market liberalism in the governance of the Chinese economy, state rescaling is a useful lens to understand how China is developing this new strategic sector. This paper proposes an analytical framework reifying vertical and horizontal s…
State infrastructural power through scalar practices
To offer a fresh angle on the state capacity to advance decarbonization, this article brings into dialog political economies of scale and the Mannian notion of state infrastructural power, animating this conceptual cross-fertilization with an analysis of China's evolving policy framework for decarbonization. This article begins with building the conceptual construct of scalar practice as a source of state infrastructural power and categorizing th…
The expansion of China's market margins
In this exchange piece, I engage with Weber's critical analysis, destabilizing the ideological dichotomy of the big bang approach versus experimental gradualism. I suggest that China's past decades of conspicuous economic success are attributed to the political tactics of navigating the variegated sociospatial contingencies, as well as the conjunctures of new rounds of spatial division of labor globally in the 1980s. In sum, I point to the role o…
The Constitutive Role of State Structures in Strategic Coupling
Research on the strategic coupling between regions and global lead firms has largely assumed that the regional assets for coupling are ready made and are largely unchanging throughout the coupling process. This article takes this assumption as its critical point of departure and presents a new framework that considers how regional assets are actively (re)configured across multiple scales in ways that could redefine the prevailing mode of strategi…
Determinants of Networking Practices in the Chinese Transition Context
The underlying spatial forces of firm networking practices are understudied in the literature of economic geography. This paper aims to reveal patterns and mechanisms of networking practices and relates them to China's transitional context based on empirical data from a firm survey in the Pearl River Delta. It addresses the localisation effect as the primary factor in explaining the selection of networking partners. The results of this paper sugg…
The Constitutive Role of State Structures in Strategic Coupling
Research on the strategic coupling between regions and global lead firms has largely assumed that the regional assets for coupling are ready made and are largely unchanging throughout the coupling process. This article takes this assumption as its critical point of departure and presents a new framework that considers how regional assets are actively (re)configured across multiple scales in ways that could redefine the prevailing mode of strategi…
State infrastructural power through scalar practices
To offer a fresh angle on the state capacity to advance decarbonization, this article brings into dialog political economies of scale and the Mannian notion of state infrastructural power, animating this conceptual cross-fertilization with an analysis of China's evolving policy framework for decarbonization. This article begins with building the conceptual construct of scalar practice as a source of state infrastructural power and categorizing th…
Determinants of Networking Practices in the Chinese Transition Context
The underlying spatial forces of firm networking practices are understudied in the literature of economic geography. This paper aims to reveal patterns and mechanisms of networking practices and relates them to China's transitional context based on empirical data from a firm survey in the Pearl River Delta. It addresses the localisation effect as the primary factor in explaining the selection of networking partners. The results of this paper sugg…
The Constitutive Role of State Structures in Strategic Coupling
Research on the strategic coupling between regions and global lead firms has largely assumed that the regional assets for coupling are ready made and are largely unchanging throughout the coupling process. This article takes this assumption as its critical point of departure and presents a new framework that considers how regional assets are actively (re)configured across multiple scales in ways that could redefine the prevailing mode of strategi…
The expansion of China's market margins
In this exchange piece, I engage with Weber's critical analysis, destabilizing the ideological dichotomy of the big bang approach versus experimental gradualism. I suggest that China's past decades of conspicuous economic success are attributed to the political tactics of navigating the variegated sociospatial contingencies, as well as the conjunctures of new rounds of spatial division of labor globally in the 1980s. In sum, I point to the role o…
The making of government-business relationships through state rescaling
Developing artificial intelligence (AI) is a priority on China's state agenda, yet the constitutive state roles in AI development are understudied. Against the background of the coexistence of authoritarianism and market liberalism in the governance of the Chinese economy, state rescaling is a useful lens to understand how China is developing this new strategic sector. This paper proposes an analytical framework reifying vertical and horizontal s…
State infrastructural power through scalar practices
To offer a fresh angle on the state capacity to advance decarbonization, this article brings into dialog political economies of scale and the Mannian notion of state infrastructural power, animating this conceptual cross-fertilization with an analysis of China's evolving policy framework for decarbonization. This article begins with building the conceptual construct of scalar practice as a source of state infrastructural power and categorizing th…
Structural and agentic powers in university-based regional innovation across Chinese core and non-core cities
This study investigates the interplay of structural and agentic power in shaping university-based National Research and Development Institutes (NRDIs) across six Chinese cities. It identifies three dynamics between structural and agentic powers – strong-strong reinforcement, weak-weak constraints and misaligned relations – and examines their impact on innovation governance. Findings highlight how local governments and universities collaborate und…
Regional development through simultaneous strategic coupling
This article argues for a more incisive understanding of regional development through examining and explaining the effects of simultaneous strategic coupling. Circumventing firm-centric approaches that underplay dynamic intra-regional asset formation and matching with global production networks (GPNs), this article spotlights how simultaneous coupling with multiple GPNs within the same region is constituted by and generates new interactive effect…
China (5 works) · Economic system (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)