YEUNG WAI-CHUNG, HENRY
My research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations, global production networks and global value chains, East Asian firms and developmental states in the global economy. I have conducted extensively research on Hong Kong firms in Southeast Asia, the regionalization of Singaporean companies, the emergence of leading Asian firms in the global economy, and most recently, the interconnected worlds of electronics global production networks. As of July 2021, my new book entitled Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia is in press with Stanford University Press and will be published in June 2022 in its Innovation and Technology in the World Economy series (see ToC and Preface here). I had previously completed two major book projects during the 2010s: Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy (Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, May 2016; Prelims and ToC here) and Global Production Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected World (co-authored with Neil Coe and published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, April 2015). In July 2014 and as Principal Investigator, I was awarded a US$4 million strategic grant by the National University of Singapore to establish the Global Production Networks Centre at NUS. Co-directed with Professor Neil Coe and with a team of founding faculty members, this GPN@NUS Centre has started in October 2014 and is expected to pursue cutting-edge academic research during the grant tenure (till September 2018) and thereafter. Between 2015 and 2020, I served as Director of the JY Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre hosted in the NUS Global Asia Institute.
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