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4. City Networks and Commodity Chains: Identifying Global Flows and Local Connections in Ho Chi Minh City

  1. Ben Derudder,
  2. Frank Witlox
  1. Ingeborg Vind1,
  2. Niels Fold2

Published Online: 20 APR 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9781444328264.ch4

Book Title

Commodity Chains and World Cities

Commodity Chains and World Cities

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How to Cite

Vind, I. and Fold, N. (2010) City Networks and Commodity Chains: Identifying Global Flows and Local Connections in Ho Chi Minh City, in Commodity Chains and World Cities (eds B. Derudder and F. Witlox), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444328264.ch4

Editor Information

  1. Ghent University, Belgium

Author Information

  1. 1

    Statistics Denmark, Denmark

  2. 2

    University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 20 APR 2011
  2. Published Print: 17 SEP 2010

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9781444335873

Online ISBN: 9781444328264

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Keywords:

  • city networks and commodity chains - identifying global flows and local connections in Ho Chi Minh City;
  • World City Network (WCN) literature and Global Commodity Chain (GCC) literature – and ‘global network phenomena’;
  • incorporation of cities into the world economy - going beyond shallow measures of World City Networks based on corporate locations;
  • Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), a global city - in Global Commodity Chains;
  • World City Networks - with invisible linkages;
  • Friedmann's launching of ‘The world city hypothesis’ - integration of cities into the world economy framework;
  • Global Commodity Chains - and invisible global cities;
  • offices of global APS firms - city centres, territorial basis for WCN studies based on APS;
  • segmentation, in export-oriented electronics manufacturing;
  • HCMC in Asian city networks - globalization processes, at play in HCMC and its rural hinterland in Mekong Delta

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • World City Networks – with invisible linkages

  • Global Commodity Chains – with invisible global cities

  • Combining commodity chains and city networks

  • Globalizing Ho Chi Minh City – chains in networks

  • HCMC in Asian city networks

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

  • References

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