Deriving insights from the global production network (GPN) framework, we examine the recent development of the liquid crystal display (LCD) industry in South Korea. Using the GPN framework, we focus on the role of the national state as an active inter-scalar mediator in the dynamic strategic...

This study examines how the Daedeok Science and Technology (S&T) Park, built as a national R&D center, has evolved over time from the perspective of a complex adaptive system. We argue that the Daedeok S&T Park—a planned park exhibiting path-dependent, self-reinforcing trajectories led by the...

The author points out that for the last two decades, industrial subcontracting has played an important role in the success of export-led industrialization in South Korea. He examines the conditions which have influenced (enhanced or weakened) the bargaining power of the working class at first...