Multi-level Modularity vs. Hierarchy
Global Production Networks in Singapore's Electronics Industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9849577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingeborg Vind (Geocenter Denmark, corresponding author), Niels Fold (0000-0002-1133-6525, Geocenter Denmark) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-83 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7223 • E-ISSN: 1903-2471 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00167223.2007.10801376 |
| OpenAlex | W1998067457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
An examination of Singapore's electronics industry is used to construct a generalized model of organizational forms in global production networks within the electronics industry. The model includes an extension of the modular production network derived from studies of the US electronic equipment industry where brand name firms concentrate on product innovation, design and marketing while contracting out manufacturing to turnkey suppliers. In the case of Singapore, however, the original model is too simple to incorporate the multiple levels of contract manufacturing relationships within the electronics industry. The modular network in the semiconductor industry is compared with the hierarchical production network identified in the hard disk drive industry, the other dominant segment of Singapore s electronics industry. The two industries are differently inserted in their global production networks in response to different production technology and corresponding differences in codifiability of the information needed for transactions between buyer and seller within the network. Despite their different organizational forms, the presence in Singapore of both segments is dependent on the maintenance and further development of regional production networks that are able to match requirements determined by global dynamics. State industrial policies in Singapore are already directed at the challenges and seem to be sufficiently comprehensive to withstand the challenges from the rapidly upcoming electronics industry in China and rivalling Southeast Asian neighbour states
Business · Economics · Electrical engineering · Electronics · Hierarchy · Industrial organization · Manufacturing engineering · Modular design · Modularity (biology · Product (mathematics · Production (economics · Telecommunications · Turnkey · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Computer Science · Engineering · Global trade and economics · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Marketing · Mathematics
Economic Growth and Development in Singapore
Tiger Technology
A Historical Pattern of Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Global production networks, knowledge diffusion, and local capability formation
Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains
Modular production networks
International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain
Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
Global Shift
What really goes on in Silicon Valley? Spatial clustering and dispersal in modular production networks
The governance of global value chains
State intervention and neoliberalism in the globalizing world economy
East Asian latecomer firms
Southeast Asian industrialisation and the changing global production system
Singapore's Overseas Industrial Parks
Globalizing’ regional development
Building China's Information Technology Industry
Beyond Product Cycles and Flying Geese
Global production networks and the analysis of economic development
Fragmented Integration in the Singapore-Indonesian Border Zone
Global production and local jobs
Chains and networks, territories and scales
Competitive Advantage in Global Production Networks
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |