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A Commentary on Peter Buckley’s Writings on the Global Factory

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  • Peter Buckley’s writings on the global factory with specific reference to the paper in this focused issue are discussed in this commentary.

  • The commentary points to the possible vulnerabilities of the global factory as an organisational form and links these vulnerabilities to features of the governance regime that supports the global factory.

  • The power of the global factory is not purely organisational but also political. The latter is particularly important when considering the impact of the global factory on world welfare and economic development.

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Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Rudolf Sinkovics for offering a view on Peter Buckley’s original submission to this focused issue, related anonymous reviewer correspondence and the invitation to contribute a comment on this debate. Encouraging conversations with him have benefited the development of this paper. I also gratefully acknowledge stimulating discussions arising within the Manchester Business School CIBER seminars (http://www.mbs.ac.uk/ciber), the Manchester ‘Capturing the gains’ network (http://www.capturingthegains.org/) and the Brooks World Poverty Institute (http://www.bwpi.manchester.ac.uk/).

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Yamin, M. A Commentary on Peter Buckley’s Writings on the Global Factory. Manag Int Rev 51, 285–293 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-011-0074-3

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