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Henry Wai-chung Yeung

Henry Wai-chung Yeung

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Singapore
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
63
Citations
23137
World Ranking
1153
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Henry Wai-chung Yeung is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences and economics, focusing extensively on topics related to global trade, regional development, and economic geography.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Global value chains: A review of the multi-disciplinary literature" (2020), Journal of International Business Studies
  • "Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks" (2020), Regional Studies
  • "The trouble with global production networks" (2020), Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • "Troubling economic geography: New directions in the post-pandemic world" (2023), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • "Explaining Geographic Shifts of Chip Making toward East Asia and Market Dynamics in Semiconductor Global Production Networks" (2022), Economic Geography

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Liena Kano
  • Eric W. K. Tsang
  • Chan-Yuan Wong
  • Shaopeng Huang
  • Jaeyong Song

Yeung publishes regularly in several academic venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Regional Studies
  • Journal of International Business Studies
  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • Environment and Planning F
  • Dialogues in Human Geography

Their main fields of study cover Social Sciences, Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Within these, they engage subfields such as Geography, Planning and Development, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, and General Economics.

Key topics central to their research agenda include:

  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
  • Global trade and economics
  • Asian Industrial and Economic Development
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Regional Development and Policy

Besides journal articles, Yeung has also published books, including the title Interconnected Worlds (2022) released by Stanford University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Global production networks and the analysis of economic development

    Jeffrey W Henderson;Peter Dicken;Martin Hess;Neil Coe

  • ‘Globalizing’ regional development: a global production networks perspective

    Neil M. Coe;Martin Hess;Henry Wai Chung Yeung;Peter Dicken

  • Chains and networks, territories and scales: towards a relational framework for analysing the global economy

    Peter Dicken;Philip F. Kelly;Kris Olds;Henry Wai-Chung Yeung

  • Rethinking relational economic geography

    Henry Wai-chung Yeung

  • Toward a Dynamic Theory of Global Production Networks

    Henry Wai-chung Yeung;Neil M. Coe

  • Global Production Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected World

    Neil M. Coe;Wai Chung Henry Yeung

  • Regional Development and the Competitive Dynamics of Global Production Networks: An East Asian Perspective

    Henry Wai-chung Yeung

  • Critical realism and realist research in human geography: a method or a philosophy in search of a method?

    Henry Wai-chung Yeung

  • Global value chains: A review of the multi-disciplinary literature

    Liena Kano;Eric W. K. Tsang;Henry Wai-chung Yeung

  • Capital, State and Space: Contesting the Borderless World

    Henry Wai-chung Yeung

  • Economic Geography : A Contemporary Introduction

    Neil M. Coe;Philip Francis Kelly;Henry Wai-Chung Yeung

  • Whither Global Production Networks in Economic Geography? Past, Present, and Future

    Martin Hess;Henry Wai Chung Yeung

  • Pathways to global city formation: a view from the developmental city-state of Singapore

    Kris Olds;Henry Wai-Chung Yeung

  • Practicing New Economic Geographies: A Methodological Examination

    Henry Wai-chung Yeung

  • Global value chains and global production networks in the changing international political economy: An introduction

    Jeffrey Neilson;Bill Pritchard;Henry Wai-chung Yeung

  • Qualitative personal interviews in international business research: Some lessons from a study of Hong Kong Transnational Corporations

    Henry Wai-chung Yeung

  • Global production networks: mapping recent conceptual developments

    Neil M Coe;Henry Wai-chung Yeung

  • Theorizing Economic Geographies of Asia

    Henry Wai-chung Yeung;George C. S. Lin

  • Critical reviews of geographical perspectives on business organizations and the organization of production: towards a network approach

    Henry Wai-chung Yeung

  • Business Networks and Transnational Corporations: A Study of Hong Kong Firms in the ASEAN Region

    Henry Wai-chung Yeung

  • Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era: Towards a Hybrid Capitalism

    Henry Wai-Chung Yeung

Frequent Co-Authors

Lily Kong
Lily Kong Singapore Management University
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Keith Richards
Keith Richards University of Cambridge
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
George C. S. Lin
George C. S. Lin University of Hong Kong
Linda McDowell
Linda McDowell University of Oxford
Trevor J. Barnes
Trevor J. Barnes University of British Columbia
Setha M. Low
Setha M. Low City University of New York

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