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Curriculum Vitae
Henry Wai–chung Yeung
19 March 2015
1. Personal Particulars
Name
:
Henry Wai–chung Yeung
Date of Birth
:
15 October 1968
Nationality
:
Singaporean
Gender
:
Male
Marital Status
:
Married with two children (14 and 9)
Telephone
:
65–6516 6810 (O); 65–9819 6810 (mobile)
Fax
:
65–6777 3091 (O)
Email
:
[email protected]
Homepage
:
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/geoywc/henry.htm
Address
:
Department of Geography, National University of Singapore,
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570.
2. Educational Background
1992 – 1995
:
Doctor of Philosophy
School of Geography, University of Manchester
Supervised by Professor Peter Dicken
1988 – 1992
:
Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Geography
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
National University of Singapore
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3. Academic Appointments Held
1 July 2005 – now:
Professor, Department of Geography, National
University of Singapore
1 Jan 2000 – 30 June 2005:
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, National
University of Singapore
Aug 1998 – 31 Dec 1999:
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National
University of Singapore
Dec 1995 – Aug 1998 :
Lecturer, Department of Geography, National University of
Singapore
1992 – 1995
:
Senior Tutor, Department of Geography, National University
of Singapore
:
Visiting Professor, School of Geosciences, University of
Sydney, Australia.
Honorary and Visiting
Jan–Dec 2013
1 Oct 2007 – 31 Sept 2010:
Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Environment and
Development, University of Manchester, England
August 2004 – Aug 2006:
Associate, Asia Research Institute,
National University of Singapore
Oct–November 2006 :
Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of
Hong Kong.
September 2006
:
University of Auckland Distinguished Visitor, New Zealand.
July–August 2006
:
Visiting Researcher, International Centre for the Study of East
Asian Development, Kitakyushu, Japan.
Oct 2003 – Oct 2006 :
Outstanding Overseas Researcher Award and Adjunct
Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences and
Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China
Dec 2002–June 2003 :
Visiting Fulbright Fellow, Department of Geography,
University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
June–December 2002 :
Visiting Commonwealth Fellow, School of Geography,
University of Manchester, UK.
June 2000 – Now
Adjunct Professor, Henan University, China
:
June 2000 – July 2002:
Research Associate, East Asia Institute, National
University of Singapore
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Sept 1993 – Dec 1993
May 1994 – Aug 1994 :
Dec 1993 – May 1994:
Visiting Associate, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Singapore
Visiting Scholar, Centre of Asian Studies, University of
Hong Kong
4. Awards and Honours
April 2013
:
Entry on “Yeung, Henry Wai-Chung” in Oxford Dictionary of
Human Geography by Noel Castree, Rob Kitchin and Alisdair
Rogers, Oxford University Press, p.570. Described as
“exceptionally active in the development of economic
geography… and has made significant theoretical contributions
to a relational perspective on the subject”.
Jan–Dec 2013
:
Visiting Professorship, School of Geosciences, University of
Sydney, Australia.
November 2012
:
Individual Residency Fellowship, the Bellagio Study and
Conference Center (Italy), the Rockefeller Foundation, USA.
September 2012
:
Elected Academician, the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.
Jan–May 2010
:
Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Research Fellowship,
National University of Singapore.
11 April 2008
:
Outstanding Researcher Award, National University of
Singapore.
Oct–November 2006 :
Visiting Professorship, Department of Geography, University
of Hong Kong.
July–August 2006
:
Visiting Fellowship, International Centre for the Study of East
Asian Development, Kitakyushu, Japan.
September 2006
:
Auckland Visitor Fellowship, New Zealand.
23 Nov–2 Dec 2005 :
Organizer of Team Residency in the Bellagio Study and
Conference Center (Italy), the Rockefeller Foundation, USA.
January–April 2003 :
Fulbright Foreign Researcher Award, Council for International
Exchange of Scholars, USA.
June–December 2002 :
Commonwealth Fellowship, Association of Commonwealth
Universities, UK
June 2002
:
NUS Excellent Teacher 2001/2002, NUS
September 1998
:
Outstanding University Researcher Award, NUS
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February 1998
:
Best Published Paper in Economic Geography Award,
Economic Geography Study Group, the Royal Geographical
Society with the Institute of British Geographers
1993 – 1994
:
Postgraduate Award, Developing Areas Research Group, the
Institute of British Geographers
1992 – 1995
:
Overseas Graduate Scholarship, NUS (for Ph.D. studies in the
University of Manchester)
1991 – 1992
:
National University of Singapore Geographical Society Gold
Medal (for being the best student in Geography in the Honours
Examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts [Hons.])
1990 – 1991
:
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Book Prize (for being
the best student in Geography in the Final Examination for the
degree of Bachelor of Arts)
1988 – 1989
:
Special Book Prize (for being the best student in Geography in
the First Examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts)
1988 – 1992
:
Public Service Commission, Singapore (PSC) Local Merit
Bursary (Teaching) for Hong Kong Student at the National
University of Singapore
5. Public and Keynote Lectures
14 November 2014
:
Regional Science: Policy & Practice lecture presented at the
Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science
Association International, Washington, DC, USA.
2 July 2013
:
Keynote Lecture at the Institute of Australian Geographers
Conference 2013, University of Western Australia, Perth.
5 October 2012
:
Third Global Lecture – Critical Reflections on Globalisation,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
30 March 2012
:
Keynote Lecture at the 39th Academy of International Business
(UK & Ireland) Conference, University of Liverpool
Management School, the UK.
30 January 2012
:
Keynote Lecture at the 40th Anniversary Symposium,
Department of Geography, National University of Ireland,
Maynooth, Ireland.
26 January 2012
:
Second LSE–NUS Public Lecture, London School of
Economics, UK.
14 May 2011
:
Plenary Lecture at the Annual Conference, Human Geography
Division, Geographical Society of China, Nanjing, China.
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18 April 2011
:
The Admiral David E. Jeremiah and Mrs. Connie Jeremiah
Lecture Series 2011, University of Oregon, USA.
26 May 2010
:
Plenary Lecture at the Annual International Conference of the
Regional Studies Association, Pécs, Hungary.
20 May 2010
:
Public Lecture at the HafenCity University, Hamburg,
Germany.
30 October 2008
:
Keynote Lecture at the Running Hot Conference on
‘Interconnection: NZ Science in the 21st Century’, Te Papa,
Wellington, New Zealand.
6 November 2007
:
Norma Wilkinson Memorial Lecture, Department of
Geography, University of Reading, UK.
27 March 2007
:
NEG Annual International Guest Lecture, School of
Geography, Politics and Sociology(GPS) and Centre for Urban
and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), University of
Newcastle, UK
24 November 2006
:
Plenary Lecture at the Regional Studies Association Annual
Conference, London, UK.
3–7 July 2006
:
Asia Pacific Viewpoint Lecture, the International Geographical
Union Regional Congress, Brisbane, Australia.
11 November 2004
:
Keynote Lecture, Annual Meeting of Finnish
Geographers, Joensuu, Finland
29 May – 1 June 2002:
Keynote Lecture, the Canadian Association of
Geographers Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada
7 March 2000
Second GaWC Annual Lecture 2000, Loughborough
University, UK.
:
6. Editorial Appointments
Editorships
Economic Geography, Clark University/Wiley. Associate Editor (2001–2003) and Co–Editor
(2003–now)
Environment and Planning A, Pion. Co–Editor (2001–now)
Review of International Political Economy, Routledge. Co–Editor (2004–April 2013) and
International Advisory Board (2002–2004; 2013–now).
Global Network: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Wiley. Asia–Pacific Editor (2001–now)
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley. Corresponding Editor (2008–
2013)
Springer Briefs in Regional Science, Springer. Co–Editor (2012–now).
Editorial board memberships
5
Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave. (Editorial Review Board, 2015-2016)
Regional Studies, Regional Science, Taylor & Francis. (Editorial Board, 2014–now)
TRaNS: Trans –Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, Cambridge University
Press. (Editorial Board, 2013–now)
Journal of Comparative Asian Development, Taylor & Francis. (Editorial Board, 2011–now)
Asian Geographer, Taylor & Francis. (Editorial Board, 2011–now)
Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship, Emerald. (Editorial Board, 2011–now)
European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave. (Editorial Board, 2011–now)
Dialogues in Human Geography, Sage. (Editorial Board, 2011–now)
Chinese Geographical Science, Springer. (Editorial Board, 2009–now)
Growth and Change, Wiley–Blackwell. (Editorial Board, 2008–now)
East Asia: An International Quarterly, Springer. (Editorial Board, 2008–now)
Eurasian Geography and Economics, Bellwether. (Editorial Board, 2007–now)
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Wiley. (International Advisory Board, 2007–now)
Critical Perspectives on International Business, Emerald. (Editorial Advisory Board, 2004–
now)
European Urban and Regional Studies, Sage. (Editorial Advisory Board, 2001–now)
Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press. (Editorial Review Board, 2001–
now)
Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Kluwer. (Editorial Review Board, 1999–now)
Journal of Business in Developing Nations, Lally School of Management & Technology,
www.jbdn.org (Editorial Board, 1997–now)
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Wiley. (Business Manager and Editorial Board,
1996–now).
Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of the Social Science, Taylor &
Francis. (International Advisory Board, 2006–2015)
International Interactions, Taylor & Francis. (Editorial Board, 2009–2013)
International Journal of Urban Sciences, University of Seoul, South Korea. (Editorial
Advisory Board, 1997–2007)
Academic Publishing Division, Times Media Pte Ltd., Singapore (Member, Cluster Advisory
Committee on Geography and Environment Research, 2003–2009)
7. Academic Specialization
Transnational Corporations in Southeast Asia
Developing Country Transnationals
Foreign Investment in ASEAN
Hong Kong Firms in ASEAN
Theories of International Business and Production
Chinese Business Networks
Networks and Organizational Theories
Economic Geography
Geography of International Business
Economic Development in the Asia Pacific Region
Asian firms in the global economy
Economic globalization
Regionalization of Singaporean firms
8. Graduate Thesis Supervision
1 January 2015 - now
Jack Harris, PhD.
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Tentative title: Varieties of Capitalism and Extra-Regional
Linkages
1 August 2008 – July 2013
(Withdrawn)
Lu Jianhao, M.Soc.Sc.,
Title: The Church as a Driver of Social Enterprises: The Case
of City Harvest Church
1 August 2007 – July 2012
Chen Rui, Ph.D.,
Title: Trans–Regional Communities and External Coupling: A
Geographical Perspective on Regional Development of the
Chaoshan Region, China
1 August 2007 – Apr 2012
Liu Yi, Ph.D.,
Title: Global Production Networks, Strategic Coupling and the
Dynamics of Industrial Upgrading in the Pearl River Delta,
China
(2012-now, Assistant Professor, School of Tourism, Sun Yat
Sen University, China)
1 August 2008 – Aug 2010
Aidan Wong, M.Soc.Sc.,
Title: Mobile labour and worker resistance strategies: a study of
waste collectors in Singapore
PhD candidate at Queen Mary College, University of London
(2011–July 2014)
1 January 2008 – May 2010 Li Na, M.Soc.Sc.,
Title: Geography of Global Finance: A study on financial
commodity markets and trading
(2011-now, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore)
1 August 2003 – Aug 2005
Liew Li Lin, M.Soc.Sc.,
Title: Neoliberalising New Regional Spaces:
The US–Singapore Free Trade Agreement in Practice
(2005-now, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore)
1 August 2003 – Sept 2004
Lim Kean Fan, M.Soc.Sc., (conferred on 19 May 2005)
Title: Made in Hong Kong? Unpacking the Transnational
Linkages of the Hong Kong Film Industry
PhD candidate, University of British Columbia (2011–June
2014)
1 August 2003 – Aug 2009
(Withdrawn)
Ren Jianhua, Ph.D.,
Title: Mainland Chinese Transnational Corporations in Asia:
Embeddedness, Knowledge Transfer, and Convergence
26 Aug 1998 –Sept 2003:
Yu Mingjie, Ph.D., conferred on 1 September 2003.
Title: Globalisation and Urban Governance Transformation:
A Tale from China
August 1998 – Oct 2002:
Sanjeev Singh, Ph.D., supervision since 13 October 2000 and
passed with revisions in October 2002 and conferred on 15
April 2004
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Title: Stakeholder influence, business behaviour, and
participation by firms in voluntary environmental initiatives:
Experience from transnational manufacturing firms in
Singapore and Malaysia
9. Membership of External Committees and Organisations
2009–2016
:
Steering Committee Member, Commission on The Dynamics of
Economic Spaces, International Geographical Union.
2008–2015
:
Board Member and Vice Chair (since January 2013), Regional
Studies Association, UK.
2008–2011:
Advisory Group Member, ESRC Research Project on “The
politics of Chinese engagement with African development”,
Open University, UK
13 December 2004
:
Corresponding Member of the Geographical Society of Finland,
by invitation in recognition of valuable contribution in the field
of Geography.
2–7 August 2004
:
International Panel Member for the 19th Research Grant
Evaluation Meeting of the Geography Section of the Division of
Earth Sciences, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation,
Beijing, China
2003 – 2004
:
Treasurer, Fulbright Association of Singapore
2003 – 2005
:
East Asia Director, Asia Specialty Group,
the Association of American Geographers
2001 – 2012
:
Southeast Asia Representative, Commonwealth Geographical
Bureau Management Committee 2001–2012, UK
1997 – 2003
:
Member, Executive Committee of the Geography Teachers
Association, Singapore
1997 –
:
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, UK
(With The Institute of British Geographers)
1993 –
:
Member of the Academy of International Business, USA
1993 –
:
Member of the Regional Studies Association, UK
1993 – 2003
:
Member of the Conference of Socialist Economists, UK
1993 –
:
Member of the Association of American Geographers, USA
1992 – 1996
:
Associate Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, UK
(With The Institute of British Geographers)
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10. Administrative Service in NUS (since 2003)
University
Aug 2012–July 2016 :
Deputy Director, Global Asia Institute and, concurrently,
Director, the JY Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre
(January 2015-December 2016)
Aug 2011– July 2012 :
Member, Social Science Search Committee, Yale–NUS College
May 2011–2012
:
Co–Chair, Management Committee, Bachelor of
Environmental Studies Degree Programme, NUS
2009
:
Member, University Taskforce on Submission to the
Economic Strategy Committee, MITI
2007–2010
:
Deputy Chairman, Business, Humanities, and Social Sciences
(BHSS) Expert Panel, and Member, University Research
Committee (URC) (Highest approval authority for research
grants up to S$500,000)
April–August 2007
:
Member, University Taskforce on Graduate Education
2005–2006
:
Chairman, University Taskforce on Research Benchmarking in
the Humanities and Social Sciences
2003–2005
:
Elected tenure–track representative in the Senate Delegacy
1997–2012
:
Captain, NUS Staff Badminton Team
:
Vice Dean (Academic Personnel), FASS
Faculty
January 2015-
Oct 2014- Sept 2017 :
Co-Director, Global Production Networks Centre, NUS
2009–
:
Member and Chair (2011–2013; 2014-), Faculty Promotion and
Tenure Committee, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
NUS
2008–2010; 2012
:
Member and Deputy Chair (2012), Faculty Promotion and
Tenure Committee, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
2008–2009
:
Member, IARU Global Summer School Committee
2003–2006
:
Member, Faculty Research Committee
2005–2007
:
Faculty Ambassador
2004–2007
:
Chair and Member, Department Evaluation Committees for
four P&T applications
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2004–2005
:
Programme and Hospitality Chair, Faculty Centennial
Conference Organizing Committee
Department Committees
July 2010–Dec 2011 :
Acting Head of Department
2004–2005/2007–2009:
Deputy Head of Department
2003–now
:
Business Manager, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
2003–now
:
Coordinator, Benchmarking Committee (includes promotion
and journal classification)
2003–2004
:
Lecturer–Adviser to the Geographical Society and SPH
Geography Challenge
2003–2004
:
Chair, Economic Geography Search Committee
2004–2005
:
Chair, Search Committee for Visiting Fellow in GIS
2005–2007
:
Chair, Political/Economic Geography Search Committee
2004–2005
:
Chair, Search Committee for Visiting Fellow in Social
Geography
2003–2007
:
Member, Peer Review (Teaching) Committee
2003–now
:
Member and Chair, Postgraduate/Graduate Committee
2003–2006
:
Member, Research/Teaching Strategies Committee
11. Seminar and Conference Organization
Dec 2011:
Co–Organizer, Workshop on “Value Chains, Production
Networks, and the Geographies of Development: Emerging
Challenges and Future Agenda”, NUS, 1–2 December 2011.
June 2007:
Co–Organizer, Second Global Conference on Economic
Geography, Beijing, China, 25–28 June 2007.
April 2007:
Co–Organizer, Sessions on Global Economic Practice, 102nd
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San
Francisco, 17–21 April 2007.
Organizer, Sessions on Local and Regional Development in
Asia, 102nd Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, San Francisco, 17–21 April 2007.
10
March 2006:
Co–Organizer, Sessions on Relationality and the Space
Economy, 101st Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Chicago, 7th–11th March 2006.
Co–Organizer, Sessions on Geographies of Economic
Geography, 101st Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Chicago, 7th–11th March 2006.
August 2005:
Chair, Programme Committee, NUS FASS Centennial
Conference on “Asian Horizons: Cities, States and Societies”,
Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore, 1–3 August
2005.
April 2005:
Organizer, Sessions on Teaching Economic Geography, 101st
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver,
5–9 April 2005.
March 2004:
Organizer, Sessions on Geographies of Development in Asia,
Centennial Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Philadelphia, 14–19 March 2004.
March 2003:
Co–Organizer, Sessions on Emerging Global Cities in Asia,
99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, New Orleans, 2–5 March 2003.
March 2002:
Co–Organizer, Sessions on Economic Geographies of Asia,
98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Los Angeles, 19 – 23 March 2002.
March 2001:
Co–Organizer, Conference on Global Processes in Asia and
Europe, Singapore, 14–16 March 2001.
Feb 2001:
Co–Organizer, Sessions on Geographies of International
Business, 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, New York, 27 February – 3 March 2001.
1999 – December 2000:
Secretary, Organizing Committee of the Global Conference on
Economic Geography, Singapore, 6 – 8 December 2000
July 1998 – Mar 1999:
Co–Organizer, Sessions on Globalization and the Asian
Economic Crisis, 95th Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Honolulu Hawaii, 23–27 March 1999.
Aug 1998 – Mar 1999 :
Chairman, Organizing Committee of the 3rd SPH Geography
Quiz, Singapore 13 March 1999.
1997 – 1998
Secretary, Organizing Committee of the Fifth Southeast Asian
Geography Association Conference, Singapore, 30 November –
4 December 1998
:
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March 1998
:
Chairman, Organizing Committee of the Annual Seminar of the
Geography Teachers' Association of Singapore, Singapore, 18
April 1998.
March 1998
:
Co–Organizer, Sessions on Industrial and Business Networks in
Asia, 94th Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Boston, 25–29 March 1998.
December 1997
:
Co–Organizer, The Logic(s) of Globalization Workshop,
National University of Singapore, 2–5 December 1997.
1996 – 1997
:
Treasurer, Organizing Committee of the International
Conference on Women in the Asia Pacific Region, Singapore,
11–13 August 1997
12. Major Research Projects
October 2014-Sept 2017:
Global Production Networks at NUS Centre (GPN@NUS)
PI, with Professor Neil Coe (Co–PI)
Funded by NUS Strategic Research Proposals 2014
Total Grant Amount: S$4.95 million
July 2014-Dec 2015 :
“Global Production Networks, Global Value Chains, and East
Asian Development”
PI
Funded by NUS HSS Seed Grant
Total Grant Amount: S$39,700
2005–2008
:
“Upgrading industry clusters in a globalizing context: a
comparative study of South Korea and Singapore”
With Dr. Yong–Sook Lee (Co–PI)
Funded by NUS FRC Grant (R–109–000–061–112/133)
Total Grant Amount: S$45,855
2003 – 2006
:
“Globalization of mainland Chinese firms”
PI, with Professor Weidong Liu (collaborator)
Funded by the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural
Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
(IGSNRR Director Grant W202)
Total Grant Amount: RMB$90,000 (approx. US$10,000)
2003 – 2006
:
“Asian firms in the global economy”
PI, with A/P Jang–sup Shin & Dr. Yong–Sook Lee
(collaborators)
Funded by NUS URC Grant (RP109–000–050–112)
Total Grant Amount: S$160,858 (approx. US$90,000)
2002 – 2004
:
“Asian foreign investment in the US: A firm–level study of
technology acquisition and transfer”
Foreign Collaborator, with Professors Jessie Poon (Co–PI) and
Alan MacPherson (Co–PI), State University of New York–
Buffalo.
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Funded by National Science Foundation Grant (Award No:
BCS–0137045)
Total Grant Amount: US$ $169,979
2000 – 2003
:
“Global production networks in Britain, East Asia and Eastern
Europe”
Foreign Collaborator, with Professor Peter Dicken, University
of Manchester (Co–PI) and Professor Jeffrey Henderson (Co–
PI), Manchester Business School.
Funded by Economic and Social Research Council Grant (No:
R000238535)
Total Grant Amount: £334,385 (approx. US$502,500)
End of Project Evaluation by the ESRC: Good “Good quality research making a useful
contribution to the development of the subject. A Good grade indicates a project whose
research activities and contribution is fully commensurate with the level of award, approach
and subject area, and which has addressed its major objectives”.
1997 – 2000
:
“Singapore's global reach: transnational operations, landscape
transformations, and identity (re)negotiations”
PI, with Dr. Kris Olds (Co–PI)
Professor Peter Dicken, A/P Linda Low, Dr. Lily Kong,
Dr. Philip Kelly, Dr. Anne Haila
Funded by NUS Academic Research Grant (No: RP970013)
Total Grant Amount: S$161,041 (approx. US$89,467)
1997 – 1999
:
“The role of entrepreneurhsip in the regionalisation of
Singaporean transnational corporations”
PI, with Dr. Tan Thiam Soon (collaborator)
Funded by NUS Academic Research Grant (No: RP960045)
Total Grant Amount: S$46,800 (approx. US$26,000)
1996 – 1997
:
“Competition for corporate control in Southeast Asia”
Collaborator, with Dr. Martin Perry (Principal Investigator) &
Dr. Jessie Poon
Funded by NUS Academic Research Grant (No: RP950023)
Total Grant Amount: S$19,650 (approx. US$10,917)
13. Public Service and Consultancy
13 October 2014
:
Expert panelist at the ASEAN Economic Community
Symposium on “Creating Opportunities for Businesses
including SMEs in ASEAN”, Yangon-Myanmar
For the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, Indonesia
15 September 2014
:
Expert speaker for the Asian International Economists Network
(AIEN) Speaker Series
For the Asian Development Bank, Manila.
May and June 2014
:
Expert speaker for Workshops on Trade in Value-Added,
Global Value Chains and Development Strategy in Singapore
and Kuala Lumpur
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For the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan and
the Asian Development Bank, Manila.
December 2007
:
Expert Consultant for Work Programme on South–South
FDI/TNCs (2008–2010)
For the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise
Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development, Geneva
22–26 May 2006
:
Resource Person in the Caribbean Conference on Best Practices
in the Use of Fiscal Incentives in Accordance with WTO Rules,
St Lucia.
For the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co–Operation
(CFTC), London, UK.
March–April 2005
:
Consulting Paper on “Country Study: Outward FDI by Firms
from Singapore”
For the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise
Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development, Geneva
July–August 2004
:
Research Brief on “Recent Southeast Asian Investment Patterns
in Southern China and the Pearl River Delta”
For Central Policy Unit, Hong Kong SAR Government
April–August 2003
:
Consulting Project on “Chinese electronics firms and Chinese
business networks in Asia: threats and opportunities”
For Samsung Electronics, South Korea.
2 October 2001
:
Brainstorming Session on “Financial Incentives for
Internationalisation of Singapore Companies”
With CEO of Trade and Development Board, Ministry of Trade
and Industry, Singapore.
28–29 May 2001
:
Expert Review of World Investment Report 2001: Promoting
Linkages, Geneva.
For the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise
Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development, Geneva.
14. Brief biography
Henry Wai-chung Yeung received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1995. He
has been Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, National
University of Singapore since July 2005. His 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. He was a recipient of the
National University of Singapore Outstanding University Researcher Award (1998) and
Outstanding Researcher Award (2008), the Institute of British Geographers Economic
Geography Research Group Best Published Paper Award (1998), the Commonwealth
Fellowship (2002), the Fulbright Foreign Research Award (2003), and the Rockefeller
Foundation’s Team Residency (2005) and Writing Resident Fellowship (2012-2013) in
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Bellagio. In September 2012 he was conferred Academician by the Academy of Social
Sciences in the UK. He has also held honorary professorships at the University of Manchester
(UK), Henan University (China), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), and visiting
professorships at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Sydney (Australia).
In July 2014, Professor Yeung (Principal Investigator) 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, this GPN@NUS Centre will start in
October 2014 and is expected to pursue cutting-edge academic research during the grant
tenure (till September 2017) and thereafter if future funding is secured. To date, Professor
Yeung has published widely on transnational corporations from East Asia, global production
networks, and the political economy of development. He is currently working on two book
projects: Strategic Coupling: East Asian Firms, Developmental States, and Global
Production Networks (full manuscript under review at Cornell University Press) and Global
Production Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected World (coauthored with Neil Coe and contracted with Oxford University Press for 2015 publication).
Professor Yeung’s previous monographs are Transnational Corporations and Business
Networks (Routledge, London, 1998), Entrepreneurship and the Internationalisation of Asian
Firms (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002) and Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era
(Routledge, London, 2004). He is also co-author of Economic Geography: A Contemporary
Introduction (Blackwell, Oxford, 2007). He is also the editor of The Globalisation of
Business Firms from Emerging Markets, Two Volumes (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1999)
and Handbook of Research on Asian Business (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007),
Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia (Routledge, London, 2010), and co-editor of
Globalisation and the Asia Pacific: Contested Territories, (Routledge, London, 1999),
Globalization of Chinese Business Firms (Macmillan, New York, 2000), Remaking the
Global Economy: Economic-Geographical Perspectives (Sage, London, 2003), and Global
Value Chains and Global Production Networks: Changes in the International Political
Economy (Routledge, London, 2015). He serves as the economic geography section editor of
almost 100 entries for the International Encyclopedia in Human Geography, 12 Volumes,
Elsevier, 2009. He is also one of the ten Advisory Editors assisting the Editor-in-Chief of the
forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 25 Volumes,
Elsevier, 2015.
Professor Yeung has over 90 research papers published or forthcoming in internationally
refereed journals and 40 chapters in books. He is Editor of Environment and Planning A and
Economic Geography, and Past Editor of Review of International Political Economy, AsiaPacific Editor of Global Networks, and Business Manager of Singapore Journal of Tropical
Geography. He sits on the editorial boards of 18 other international journals in the fields of
human geography, management, urban studies, area studies, and general social science, such
as Journal of International Business Studies, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, European
Urban and Regional Studies, Journal of Economic Geography, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, and
Eurasian Geography and Economics. During 2003-2005, he was the East Asia Director, Asia
Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. He is also the Southeast Asia
Representative in the Commonwealth Geographical Bureau Management Committee, 20012016. Since 2013, he has been Vice Chair of the Regional Studies Association (UK).
Professor Yeung is frequently invited with full funding to speak in international conferences,
workshops, and symposiums. Between 1995 and May 2014, he made 70 such invited trips to
speak in such diverse regions as the Americas: US(7), Canada(1), Brazil(1), and St. Lucia(1);
Europe: Ireland(2), Denmark(3), Finland(1), Germany(3), Hungary(1), Italy(1), Spain(1),
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Sweden(1), Switzerland(1), the Netherlands(2), and the UK(10); and the Asia Pacific:
Australia(3), China(7), Hong Kong(10), Japan(2), Macau(1), Malaysia(2), New Zealand(1),
South Korea(3), Taiwan(2), and Thailand(2). In the public domain, he has done consultancy
work for Samsung Electronics, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore Government,
the Central Policy Unit, Hong Kong SAR Government, Asian Development Bank Institute,
the UNCTAD, and the Commonwealth Secretariat. His comments have been quoted in The
Financial Times (London), Agence France Presse (Beijing), Business Times (Singapore),
Straits Times (Singapore), The Standard (Hong Kong), CNBC Live (Hong Kong), and CFO
Asia (Hong Kong).
As of 19 March 2015, over 1,998 publications listed in the ISI Web of Science databases
cited his work (excluding self-citations; h-index = 25). Some 197 of these citing papers were
published in 2014. Altogether, his work has now been cited over 2,500 times by the same set
of SSCI publications (10,087 citations on Google Scholar). The ISI Essential Science
Indicators (2002-2012) has ranked him as the 241st highly cited scientist among 4,672
entries in the field of Social Sciences, General. This ranking is based on the total number of
citations of his papers published in journals indexed in the ISI Web of Science between 2002
and 2012. On the basis of the age-weighted h-index, he was ranked first in a recent listing of
top 50 cited human geographers in the world published in the Journal of Economic
Geography (2010, Vol.10).
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Publication List
HENRY WAI–CHUNG YEUNG
1. Internationally Refereed Articles (Journals and Book Chapters)
1.1
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1993), ‘Postgraduate conditions and the ESRC’s
Postgraduate Training Guidelines: a sympathetic response from an overseas comrade’,
Area, Vol.25(4), pp.401–3.
1.2
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1994), ‘Third World multinationals revisited: a research
critique and future agenda’, Third World Quarterly, Vol.15(2), pp.297–317.
1.3
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1994), ‘Critical reviews of geographical perspectives on
business organisations and the organisation of production: towards a network
approach’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.18(4), pp.460–90.
1.4
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1994), ‘Hong Kong firms in the ASEAN region:
transnational corporations and foreign direct investment’, Environment and Planning A,
Vol.26(12), pp.1931–56.
1.5
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1994), ‘Transnational corporations from Asian developing
countries: their characteristics and competitive edge’, Journal of Asian Business,
Vol.10(4), pp.17–58.
Reproduced in Vernon–Wortzel, Heidi and Wortzel, Lawrence H. (1997), Strategic
Management in a Global Economy, Third Edition, New York: John Wiley, pp.22–45.
1.6
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1995), ‘Qualitative personal interviews in international
business research: some lessons from a study of Hong Kong transnational corporations’,
International Business Review, Vol.4(3), pp.313–39.
1.7
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1995), ‘The geography of Hong Kong transnational
corporations in the ASEAN region’, Area, Vol.27(4), pp.318–34.
1.8
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1996), ‘Attracting foreign investment? The role of
investment incentives in the ASEAN operations of transnational corporations’, The
Pacific Review, Vol.9(4), pp.505–29.
1.9
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1996), ‘The historical geography of Hong Kong investments
in the ASEAN region’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol.17(1), pp.66–82.
1.10 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Savage, Victor R. (1996), ‘Urban imagery and the main
street of the nation: the legibility of Orchard Road in the eyes of Singaporeans’,
Urban Studies, Vol.33(3), pp.473–94.
1.11 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1997), ‘Cooperative strategies and Chinese business
networks: a study of Hong Kong transnational corporations in the ASEAN region’, in
Paul W. Beamish and J. Peter Killing (eds.), Cooperative Strategies: Asia–Pacific
Perspectives, San Francisco, CA: The New Lexington Press, pp.22–56.
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Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1996), ‘Abstract – Cooperative strategies and Chinese
business networks: a study of Hong Kong transnational corporations in the ASEAN
region’, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol.27(5), pp.xxx–xxxi.
1.12 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1997), ‘Business networks and transnational corporations: a
study of Hong Kong firms in the ASEAN region’, Economic Geography, Vol.73(1),
pp.1–25.
1.13 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1997), ‘Critical realism and realist research in human
geography: a method or a philosophy in search of a method?’, Progress in Human
Geography, Vol.21(1), pp.51–74.
1.14 Dicken, Peter, Tickell, Adam and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1997), ‘Putting Japanese
investment in Europe in its place’, Area, Vol.29(3) pp.200–12.
1.15 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1998), ‘The social–spatial constitution of business
organisations: a geographical perspective’, Organization, Vol.5(1), pp.101–28.
1.16 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1998), ‘The political economy of transnational corporations:
a study of the regionalisation of Singaporean firms’, Political Geography, Vol.17(4),
pp.389–416.
Reprinted in Garry Rodan (ed.) (2001), Singapore, The International Library of Social
Change in Asia Series, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.57–84.
1.17 Perry, Martin, Poon, Jessie and Yeung, Henry (1998), ‘Regional offices in Singapore:
spatial and strategic influences in the location of corporate control’, Review of Urban
and Regional Development Studies, Vol.10(1), pp.42–59.
1.18 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1998), ‘Transnational economic synergy and business
networks: the case of two–way investment between Malaysia and Singapore’, Regional
Studies, Vol.32(8), pp.687–706.
1.19 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1998), ‘Capital, state and space: contesting the borderless
world’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol.23(3),
pp.291–309.
1.20 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Olds, Kris (1998), ‘Singapore’s global reach: situating
the city–state in the global economy’, International Journal of Urban Sciences,
Vol.2(1), pp.24–47.
1.21 Perry, Martin, Yeung, Henry and Poon, Jessie (1998), ‘Regional office mobility: the
case of corporate control in Singapore and Hong Kong’, Geoforum, Vol.29(3), pp.237–
255.
1.22 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1999), ‘Under siege? Economic globalisation and Chinese
business in Southeast Asia’, Economy and Society, Vol.28(1), pp.1–29.
1.23 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1999), ‘The internationalization of ethnic Chinese business
firms from Southeast Asia: strategies, processes and competitive advantage’,
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol.23(1) pp.103–27.
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1.24 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1999), ‘Regulating investment abroad? The political
economy of the regionalisation of Singaporean firms’, Antipode, Vol.31(3), pp.245–73.
1.25 Olds, Kris and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1999), ‘(Re)shaping “Chinese” business
networks in a globalising era’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
Vol.17(5), pp.535–55.
1.26 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘State intervention and neoliberalism in the
globalising world economy: lessons from Singapore’s regionalisation programme’, The
Pacific Review, Vol.13(1), pp.133–62.
1.27 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘Neoliberalism, laissez–faire capitalism and
economic crisis: the political economy of deindustrialisation in Hong Kong’,
Competition and Change, Vol.4(2), pp.121–69.
1.28 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘Economic globalisation, crisis, and the emergence
of Chinese business communities in Southeast Asia’, International Sociology,
Vol.15(2), pp.269–90.
1.29 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘A crisis of industrial and business networks in
Asia?’, Environment and Planning A, Vol.32(2), pp.191–200.
1.30 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘Embedding foreign affiliates in transnational
business networks: the case of Hong Kong firms in Southeast Asia’, Environment and
Planning A, Vol.32(2), pp.201–222.
1.31 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘Organising “the firm” in industrial geography I:
networks, institutions and regional development’, Progress in Human Geography,
Vol.24(2), pp.301–15.
1.32 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘Limits to the growth of family–owned business?
The case of Chinese transnational corporations from Hong Kong’, Family Business
Review, Vol.13(1), pp.55–70.
1.33 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘The dynamics of Asian business systems in a
globalising era’, Review of International Political Economy, Vol.7(3), pp.399–433.
1.34 Wang, Jason H.J. and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘Strategies for global
competition: transnational chemical firms and Singapore’s chemical cluster’,
Environment and Planning A, Vol.32(5), pp.847–69.
1.35 Tan, Chia Zhi and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘The regionalization of Chinese
business networks: a study of Singaporean firms in Hainan Province, China’, The
Professional Geographer, Vol.52(3), pp.437–54.
1.36 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘Strategic control and coordination in Chinese
business firms’, Journal of Asian Business, Vol.16(1), pp.95–123.
1.37 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘Local politics and foreign ventures in China’s
transitional economy: the political economy of Singaporean investments in China’,
Political Geography, Vol.19(7), pp.809–40.
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1.38 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Dicken, Peter (2000), ‘Economic globalisation and the
tropical world in the new millennium’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography,
Vol.21(3), pp.225–33.
1.39 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Soh, Tse Min (2000), ‘Corporate governance and the
global reach of Chinese family firms in Singapore’, Seoul Journal of Economics,
Vol.13(3), pp.301–34.
1.40 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung, Poon, Jessie and Perry, Martin (2001), ‘Towards a regional
strategy: the role of regional headquarters and regional offices in the Asia Pacific’,
Urban Studies, Vol.38(1), pp.157–83.
1.41 Kelly, Philip F., Olds, Kris and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2001), ‘Introduction:
geographical perspectives on the Asian economic crisis’, Geoforum, Vol.32(1), pp.vii–
xiii.
1.42 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2001), ‘Regulating “the firm” and socio–cultural practices
in industrial geography II’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.25(2), pp. 293–302.
1.43 Dicken, Peter, Kelly, Philip, Olds, Kris and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2001), ‘Chains
and networks, territories and scales: towards an analytical framework for the global
economy’, Global Networks, Vol.1(2), pp.89–112.
1.44 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2001), ‘Redressing the geographical bias in social science
knowledge’, Environment and Planning A, Vol.33(1), pp.2–9.
1.45 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2001), ‘Does economics matter for/in economic
geography?’, Antipode, Vol.33(2), pp.168–175.
1.46 Chew, Yoke–Tong and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2001), ‘The SME advantage: adding
local touch to foreign transnational corporations in Singapore’, Regional Studies,
Vol.34(5), pp.431–48.
1.47 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2001), ‘Organising regional production networks in
Southeast Asia: implications for production fragmentation, trade and rules of origin’,
Journal of Economic Geography, Vol.1(3), pp.299–321.
1.48 Coe, Neil M. and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2001), ‘Geographical perspectives on
mapping globalisation’, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol.1(4), pp.367–80.
1.49 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2002), ‘Entrepreneurship in international business: an
institutional perspective’, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Vol.19(1), pp.29–61.
1.50 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2002), ‘Industrial geography: industrial restructuring and
labour markets’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.26(3), pp.367–79.
1.51 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2002), ‘Doing what kind of economic geography?’, Journal
of Economic Geography, Vol.2(2), pp.250–52.
1.52 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2002), ‘Does it all come together in Los Angeles?’,
Environment and Planning A, Vol.34(6), pp.954–57.
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1.53 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2002), ‘The limits to globalization theory: a geographic
perspective on global economic change’, Economic Geography, Vol.78(3), pp.285–305.
1.54 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2002), ‘Deciphering citations’, Environment and Planning
A, Vol.34(12), pp.2093–2102.
1.55 Henderson, Jeffrey, Dicken, Peter, Hess, Martin, Coe, Neil and Yeung, Henry Wai–
chung (2002), ‘Global production networks and the analysis of economic development’,
Review of International Political Economy, Vol.9(3), pp.436–64.
1.56 Phillips, Su–Ann Mae and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2003), ‘A place for R&D? The
Singapore Science Park’, Urban Studies, Vol.40(4), pp.707–32.
1.57 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Lin, George C.S. (2003), ‘Theorizing economic
geographies of Asia’, Economic Geography, Vol.79(2), 107–28.
1.58 Lai, Karen P.Y. and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2003), ‘Contesting the state: discourses
of the Asian economic crisis and mediating strategies of electronics firms in Singapore’,
Environment and Planning A, Vol.35(3), pp.463–88.
1.59 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2003), ‘Practicing new economic geographies: a
methodological examination’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers,
Vol.93(2), pp.442–62.
1.60 Olds, Kris and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2004), ‘Pathways to global city formation: a
view from the developmental city–state of Singapore’, Review of International Political
Economy, Vol.11(3), pp.489–521. A shortened version reproduced in Neil Brenner and
Roger Keil (eds.) (2006), The Global Cities Reader, New York: Routledge, pp.392–99.
1.61 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2004), ‘Strategic governance and economic diplomacy in
China: the political economy of government–linked companies from Singapore’, East
Asia: An International Quarterly, Vol.21(1), pp.40–64.
1.62 Liu, Weidong, Dicken, Peter and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2004), ‘New information
and communication technologies and local cluster of firms: a case study of Xingwang
industrial park in Beijing’, Urban Geography, Vol.25(4), pp.390–407.
1.63 Coe, Neil, Hess, Martin, Yeung, Henry Wai–chung, Dicken, Peter and Henderson,
Jeffrey (2004), ‘”Globalizing” regional development: a global production networks
perspective’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series,
Vol.29(4), pp.468–84.
1.64 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2005), ‘Rethinking relational economic geography’,
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol.30(1), pp.37–51.
1.65 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2005), ‘The firm as social networks: an organizational
perspective’, Growth and Change, Vol.36(3), pp.307–28.
1.66 Glasmeier, Amy, Asheim, Bjorn, Yeung, Henry Wai–chung, and Angel, David (2005),
‘Trying out new things’, Economic Geography, Vol.81(2), pp.127–28.
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1.67 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2005), ‘Organizational space: a new frontier in international
business strategy?’, Critical Perspective on International Business, Vol.1(4), pp.219–
40.
1.68 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung, Liu, Weidong and Dicken, Peter (2006), ‘Transnational
corporations and network effects of a local manufacturing cluster in mobile
telecommunications equipment in China’, World Development, Vol.34(3), pp.520–40.
1.69 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2006), ‘Change and continuity in Southeast Asian business’,
Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Vol.23(3), pp.229–54.
1.70 Hess, Martin and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2006), ‘Whither global production
networks in economic geography? Past, present and future’, Environment and Planning
A, Vol.38(7), pp.1193–1204.
1.71 Coe, Neil M. and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2006), ‘Revitalizing economic geography:
some pedagogical reflections’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol.30(3),
pp.389–404.
1.72 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Liu, Weidong (2006), ‘Teaching economic geography in
two contrasting Asian contexts: Decentering Anglo–American economic geography in
China and Singapore’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol.30(3), pp.449–
55.
1.73 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2006), ‘Understanding Singapore’s global reach: outward
investment trends, firm–specific motivations, and government policies’, East Asian
Economic Perspectives, Vol.17(2), pp.40–77.
1.74 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2007), ‘From followers to market leaders: Asian electronics
firms in the global economy’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol.48(1), pp.1–25.
1.75 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2007), ‘Remaking economic geography: insights from East
Asia’, Economic Geography, Vol.83(4), pp.339–48.
1.76 Hsu, Jinn–Yuh, Poon, Jessie P. and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2008), ‘External
leveraging and technological upgrading among East Asian firms in the United States’,
European Planning Studies, Vol.16(1), pp.99–118.
1.77 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Liu, Weidong (2008), ‘Globalizing China: the rise of
mainland Chinese firms in the global economy’, Eurasian Geography and Economics,
Vol.49(1), pp.57–86.
1.78 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2008), ‘Observations on China’s dynamic industrial sector’,
Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol.49(5), pp.509–22.
1.79 Liu, Weidong and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2008), ‘China’s dynamic industrial
sector: the automobile industry’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol.49(5),
pp.523–48.
1.80 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2009), ‘Regional development and the competitive
dynamics of global production networks: An East Asian perspective’, Regional Studies,
Vol.43(3), pp.325–51.
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1.81 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2009), ‘Transnationalizing entrepreneurship: A critical
agenda for economic geography’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.33(2), pp.210–
35.
1.82 Poon, Jessie P.H. and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2009), ‘Continental drift?
Development issues in Asia, Latin America and Africa’, Singapore Journal of Tropical
Geography, Vol.30(1), pp.3–6.
1.83 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2009), ‘Transnational corporations, global production
networks, and urban and regional development: a geographer’s perspective on
Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy’, Growth and Change, Vol.40(2),
pp.197–226.
1.84 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2009), ‘To do or not to do? Geographical monographs in
East Asia’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.33(1), pp.116–18.
1.85 Coe, Neil, Dicken, Peter, Hess, Martin, Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2010), ‘Making
connections: global production networks and world city networks’, Global Networks,
Vol.10(1), pp.138–49.
1.86 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2010), ‘Strategic governance of Singapore's sovereign
wealth funds’, Environment and Planning A, Vol.42(9), pp.2284–2286. Clark, Gordon
L., Monk, Ashby, Dixon, Adam, Pauly, Louis W., Faulconbridge, James, Yeung, Henry
Wai–chung and Behrendt, Sven (2010), ‘Symposium: sovereign fund capitalism’,
Environment and Planning A, Vol.42(9), pp.2271–291.
1.87 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2011), ‘From national development to economic
diplomacy? Governing Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds’, The Pacific Review,
Vol.24(5), pp.625–52.
1.88 Parrilli, Mario Davide, Nadvi, Khalid and Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2013), ‘Local and
regional development in global value chains, production networks and innovation
networks: a comparative review and the challenges for future research’, European
Planning Studies, Vol.21(7), pp.967-88.
1.89 Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2014), ‘Governing the market in a globalizing era:
developmental states, global production networks, and inter-firm dynamics in East
Asia’, Review of International Political Economy, Vol.21(1), pp.70-101.
1.90 Neilson, Jeffrey, Pritchard , Bill and Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2014), ‘Global value
chains and global production networks in the changing international political economy’,
Review of International Political Economy, Vol.21(1), pp.1-8.
1.91 Yeung, Henry Wai-chung and Coe, Neil M. (2015), ‘Towards a dynamic theory of
global production networks’, Economic Geography, Vol.91(1), pp.29-58.
1.92 Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2015), ‘Regional development in the global economy: a
dynamic perspective of strategic coupling in global production networks’, Regional
Science Policy & Practice, Vol.7(1), pp.1-23.
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2. Local/Regional Journal Articles
2.1
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1996), ‘Sectoral specialization and competitive advantage:
Hong Kong investments in the ASEAN region’, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Vol.13(1),
pp.74–94.
2.2
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2004), ‘SMEs reverse technology flows’, Innovation: The
Magazine of Research & Technology, Vol.4(3), pp.50–51.
3. Chapter in Books and Conference Proceedings
3.1
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Savage, Victor R. (1995), ‘The Singaporean image of
the Orchardscape’, in Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Lily Kong (eds.), Portraits of Places:
History, Community and Identity in Singapore, Singapore: Times Editions, pp.68–87.
3.2
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1997), ‘Limits to the growth of family–owned business?
The case of Chinese transnational corporations from Hong Kong’, Proceedings of the
Academy of International Business Asia Pacific Area Conference, University of Hawaii,
19–21 June 1997, pp.43–48.
3.3
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1998), ‘Competing for transnational corporations? The
regional operations of foreign firms in Hong Kong and Singapore’, in Ian G. Cook,
Marcus A. Doel, Rex Y.F. Li and Yongjiang Wang (eds.), Dynamic Asia: Business,
Trade and Economic Development in Pacific Asia, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.78–119.
3.4
Low, Linda, Ramstetter, Eric D. and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1998), ‘Accounting for
outward direct investment from Hong Kong and Singapore: who controls what?’, in
Robert E. Baldwin, Robert E. Lipsey and J. David Richardson (eds.), Geography and
Ownership as Bases for Economic Accounting, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
pp.139–68.
3.5
Dicken, Peter and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1999), ‘Investing in the future: East and
Southeast Asian firms in the global economy’, in Olds, Kris, Dicken, Peter, Kelly,
Philip, Kong, Lily and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (eds.), Globalisation and the Asia–
Pacific: Contested Territories, London: Routledge, pp.107–28.
3.5
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1999), ‘The regionalisation of Chinese entrepreneurs’, in
Leo Paul Dana (ed.), International Entrepreneurship, Singapore: NTU–
Entrepreneurship Development Centre, pp.295–304.
3.6
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1999), ‘Introduction: competing in the global economy’, in
Henry Wai–chung Yeung (ed.), The Globalisation of Business Firms from Emerging
Economies, Two Volumes, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.xiii–xlvi.
3.7
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Olds, Kris (2000), ‘Globalizing Chinese business firms:
where are they coming from, where are they heading?’, in Henry Wai–chung Yeung
and Kris Olds (eds.), Globalization of Chinese Business Firms, New York: Macmillan,
pp.1–28.
3.8
Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘The dynamics of the globalization of Chinese
business firms’, in Henry Wai–chung Yeung and Kris Olds (eds.), Globalization of
Chinese Business Firms, New York: Macmillan, pp.75–104.
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3.9
Tan, Chia–Zhi and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘The internationalization of
Singaporean firms into China: entry modes and investment strategies’, in Henry Wai–
chung Yeung and Kris Olds (eds.), Globalization of Chinese Business Firms, New
York: Macmillan, pp.220–43.
3.10Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Olds, Kris (2000), ‘Epilogue’, in Henry Wai–chung
Yeung and Kris Olds (eds.), Globalization of Chinese Business Firms, New York:
Macmillan, pp.275–78.
3.11 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2000), ‘Managing crisis in a globalising era: the case of
Chinese business firms from Singapore’, in David Ip, Constance Lever–Tracy and Noel
Tracy (eds.), Chinese Businesses and the Asian Crisis, Aldershot: Gower, pp.87–113.
3.12 Coe, Neil M. and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2001), ‘Grounding global flows:
constructing an e–commerce hub in Singapore’, in Thomas R. Leinbach and Stanley D.
Brunn (eds.), Worlds of E–Commerce: Economic, Geographic and Social Dimensions,
Chichester: Wiley, pp.145–166. Reprinted in Stephen Graham (ed.) (2004), The
Cybercities Reader, London: Routledge, pp.354–59.
3.13 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2001), ‘Managing traditional Chinese family firms across
borders: four generations of entrepreneurship in Eu Yan Sang’, in Leo Douw, Cen
Huang and David Ip (eds.), Rethinking Chinese Transnational Enterprises: Cultural
Affinity and Business Strategies, Surrey, UK: Curzon, pp.184–207.
3.14 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2002), ‘Transnational entrepreneurship and Chinese
business networks: the regionalisation of Chinese business firms from Singapore’, in
Thomas Menkhoff and Solvay Gerke (eds.), Chinese Entrepreneurship and Asian
Business Networks, London: RoutledgeCurzon, pp.159–183.
3.15 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2002), ‘Business as usual? Changing business networks in
Pacific Asia in a globalizing era’, in Yue–man Yeung (ed.), New Challenges for
Development and Modernization: Hong Kong and the Asia–Pacific Region in the New
Millennium, Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, pp.131–60.
3.16 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2003), ‘Globalization’, in Alisdair Rogers and Heather A.
Viles (eds.), The Student’s Companion to Geography, Second Edition, Oxford:
Blackwell, pp.103–107.
3.17 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Peck, Jamie (2003), ‘Making global connections: a
geographer’s perspective’, in Jamie Peck and Henry Wai–chung Yeung (eds.),
Remaking the Global Economy: Economic–Geographical Perspectives, London: Sage,
pp.3–23.
3.18 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2004), ‘Enterprise zones’, in Stephan Harrison, Steve Pile
and Nigel Thrift (eds.), Patterned Ground: Entanglements of Nature and Culture,
London: Reaktion, pp.185–87.
3.19 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2004), ‘International entrepreneurship and Chinese business
research’, in Leo Paul Dana (ed.), The Handbook of Research on International
Entrepreneurship, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.73–93.
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3.20 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2004), ‘Getting the ear of the minister’, in Rebecca
Marschan–Piekkari and Catherine Welch (eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research
Methods for International Business, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.183–184.
3.21 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2005), ‘Institutional capacity and Singapore’s
developmental state: managing economic (in)security in the global economy’, in Helen
E S Nesadurai (ed.), Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia: Governance
and Institutions, London: Routledge, pp.85–106.
3.22 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2005), ‘Entries on “Asian crises”, “newly industrialized
economies”, “small and medium enterprises”, and “transnational corporations from
developing economies”’, in Tim Forsyth (ed.), Encyclopedia of International
Development, London: Routledge, pp.26–27, 480–482, 630–632, 695–696.
3.23 Olds, Kris and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2006), ‘Pathways to global city formation: a
view from the developmental city–state of Singapore’, in Neil Brenner and Roger Keil
(eds.), Global Cities Reader, New York: Routledge, pp.392–99.
3.24 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2006), ‘Innovating for Global Competition: Singapore’s
Pathway To High–Tech Development’, in Bengt–Åke Lundvall, Patarapong
Intarakumnerd and Jan Vang (eds.), Asian Innovation Systems in Transition,
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.257–292.
3.25 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2006), ‘Globalizing Asian capitalism: an economic–
geographical perspective’, in Sharmistha Bagchi–Sen and Helen Lawton Smith (eds.),
Economic Geography: Past, Present and Future, London: Routledge, pp.145–55.
3.26 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2007), ‘Firms’, in Ian Douglas, Richard Huggett, and Chris
Perkins (eds.), Companion Encyclopaedia of Geography: From Local to Global,
London: Routledge, pp.339–50.
3.27 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2007), ‘Unpacking the business of Asian business’, in
Henry Wai–chung Yeung (ed.), Handbook of Research on Asian Business, Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar, pp.1–16.
3.28 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2007), ‘The dynamics of Southeast Asian Chinese
business’, in Henry Wai–chung Yeung (ed.), Handbook of Research on Asian Business,
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.356–80.
3.29 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2007), ‘Globalizing Asian business: dynamics of change
and adjustment’, in Dennis A. Rondinelli and John M. Heffron (eds.), Globalization
and Change in Asia, Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, pp.85–107.
3.30 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2007), ‘Researching hybridity through “Chinese” business
networks’, in Trevor Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard and Adam Tickell (eds.),
Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, London: Sage, pp.279–289.
3.31 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2007), ‘Hong Kong–ASEAN economic relations’, in Yue–
man Yeung (ed.), The First Decade: The Hong Kong SAR in Retrospective and
Introspective Perspectives, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, pp.103–36.
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3.32 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2007), ‘Outward foreign direct investment by enterprises
from Singapore’, in United Nations Conference on Trade and Investment (ed.), Global
Players from Emerging Markets: Strengthening Enterprise Competitiveness Through
Outward Investment, Geneva: United Nations, pp.117–34.
3.33 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2008), ‘Ethnic entrepreneurship and the internationalization
of Chinese capitalism in Asia’, in Leo Dana (ed.), Handbook of Research on Ethnic
Minority Entrepreneurship, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.757–98.
3.34 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2008), ‘Perspectives on inter–organizational relations in
economic geography’, in Steve Cropper, Mark Ebers, Chris Huxham and Peter Smith
Ring (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Inter–Organizational Relations, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, pp.473–501.
3.35 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2008), ‘Industrial clusters and production networks in
Southeast Asia: a global production networks approach’, in Ikuo Kuroiwa and Mun
Heng Toh (eds.), Production Networks and Industrial Clusters: Integrating Economies
in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp.83–120.
3.36 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2008), ‘Hybrid capitalism: a new bred of Chinese
entrepreneurship in a global era’, in Raymond Wong (ed.), Chinese Entrepreneurship in
a Global Era, London: Routledge, pp.29–51.
3.37 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2009), ‘The rise of East Asia: An emerging challenge to the
study of international political economy’, in Mark Blyth (ed.), Routledge Handbook of
International Political Economy, London: Routledge, pp.201–15.
3.38 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2009), ‘Globalization – Economic’, in Kitchin, Rob, Thrift,
Nigel, Castree, Noel, Crang, Mike, Domosh, Mona, Anderson, Kay, Cloke, Paul,
Crampton, Jeremy, Graham, Brian, Hadjimichalis, Costis, Hubbard, Phil, Kearns,
Robin, Kwan, Mei–Po, Lees, Loretta, McLafferty, Sarah, Paasi, Anssi, Philo, Chris,
Sidaway, James, Willis, Katie, and Yeung, Henry (eds.), International Encyclopedia of
Human Geography, Oxford: Elsevier, pp.581–586.
3.39 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2010), ‘Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia’, in
Henry Wai–chung Yeung (ed.), Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia:
Production Networks, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship, Regions and Cities Series
No.41, London: Routledge, pp.1–3.
3.40 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2010), ‘Regional development and the competitive
dynamics of global production networks: An East Asian perspective’, in Henry Wai–
chung Yeung (ed.), Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia: Production
Networks, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship, Regions and Cities Series No.41, London:
Routledge, pp.5–31.
3.41 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2010), ‘Globalizing Singapore: one global city, global
production networks, and the developmental state’, in Tan Tarn How (ed.), Singapore
Perspectives 2010: Home, Heart, Horizon, Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies,
pp.109–21.
3.42 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2012), ‘East Asian capitalisms and economic geographies’,
in Trevor Barnes, Jamie Peck and Eric Sheppard (eds.), The Wiley‐Blackwell
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Companion to Economic Geography, Oxford: Wiley–Blackwell, pp.116–29. ISBN:
978–1–4443–6238–1
3.43 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2013), ‘Globalizing competition in Asia: an evolutionary
perspective’, in Michael W. Dowdle, John S. Gillespie and Imelda Maher (eds.), Asian
Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition: Towards a Regulatory Geography of
Global Competition Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.265–282.
3.44 Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2015), ‘Corporations and the nation-state’, in Douglas
Richardson and the Association of American Geographers (ed.), The International
Encyclopedia of Geography, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
3.45 Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2015), ‘Production networks: global and local’, in Gordon
L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, Meric S. Gertler, and Dariusz Wójcik (eds.), The New
Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3.46 Neilson, Jeffrey, Pritchard, Bill and Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2015), ‘Global value
chains and global production networks in the changing international political economy’,
in Jeffrey Neilson, Bill Pritchard and Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (eds.), Global Value
Chains and Global Production Networks: Changes in the International Political
Economy, London: Routledge, pp.1-8.
3.47 Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2015), ‘Governing the market in a globalizing era:
developmental states, global production networks, and inter-firm dynamics in East
Asia’, in Jeffrey Neilson, Bill Pritchard and Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (eds.), Global
Value Chains and Global Production Networks: Changes in the International Political
Economy, London: Routledge, pp.70-101.
4. Books/Journal Special Issues (Authored and Edited)
Authored Books
4.1 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (1998), Transnational Corporations and Business Networks:
Hong Kong Firms in the ASEAN Region, Routledge Advances in Asia Pacific Business 9,
London: Routledge. ISBN: 0–415–14016–1, 297pp.
4.2 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2002), Entrepreneurship and the Internationalisation of
Asian Firms: An Institutional Perspective, New Horizons in International Business Series,
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN: 1–84064–734–5, 311pp
4.3 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (2004), Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era: Towards Hybrid
Capitalism, Routledge Advances in International Political Economy Series No.12,
London: Routledge. ISBN: 0–415–30989–1, 295pp
4.4 Coe, Neil M., Kelly, Philip F. and Yeung, Henry W.C. (2007), Economic Geography: A
Contemporary Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN: 978–1–4051–3219–0, 420pp.
4.5 Coe, Neil M., Kelly, Philip F. and Yeung, Henry W.C. (2013), Economic Geography: A
Contemporary Introduction, Second Edition, New York: Wiley–Blackwell. ISBN 978–0–
470–94338–0, 576pp.
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4.6 Coe, Neil M. and Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2015), Global Production Networks:
Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected World, Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Edited Books
4.7 Olds, Kris, Dicken, Peter, Kelly, Philip, Kong, Lily and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (eds.)
(1999), Globalisation and the Asia–Pacific: Contested Territories, London: Routledge.
ISBN: 0–415–19920–4, 293pp.
4.8 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (ed.) (1999), The Globalization of Business Firms from
Emerging Economies, Two Volumes, The Globalization of the World Economy Series,
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN: 1–84064–053–7, 1,145pp.
4.9 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Olds, Kris (eds.) (2000), Globalization of Chinese
Business Firms, New York: Macmillan. ISBN: 0–333–71629–9, 326pp.
4.10 Peck, Jamie and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (eds.) (2003), Remaking the Global
Economy: Economic–Geographical Perspectives, London: Sage. ISBN: 0–7619–4898–8,
256pp
4.11 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (ed.) (2007), Handbook of Research on Asian Business,
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN: 1–84376–960–3, 488pp.
4.12 Kitchin, Rob, Thrift, Nigel, Castree, Noel, Crang, Mike, Domosh, Mona, Anderson,
Kay, Cloke, Paul, Crampton, Jeremy, Graham, Brian, Hadjimichalis, Costis, Hubbard,
Phil, Kearns, Robin, Kwan, Mei–Po, Lees, Loretta, McLafferty, Sarah, Paasi, Anssi,
Philo, Chris, Sidaway, James, Willis, Katie, and Yeung, Henry (eds.) (2009),
International Encyclopedia in Human Geography, 12 Volumes, Elsevier.
4.13 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (ed.) (2010), Globalizing Regional Development in East
Asia: Production Networks, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship, Regions and Cities Series
No.41, London: Routledge. ISBN: 978–0–415–63963–7, 208pp.
4.14 Neilson, Jeffrey, Pritchard, Bill and Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (eds.) (2015), Global
Value Chains and Global Production Networks: Changes in the International Political
Economy, London: Routledge.
Journal Special Issues
4.15 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (ed.) (2000), ‘Theme issue on industrial and business
networks in Asia’, Environment and Planning A, Vol.32(2), pp.191–304.
4.16 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Dicken, Peter (eds.) (2000), ‘Special Issue: Economic
globalisation and the tropical world in the new millennium’, Singapore Journal of
Tropical Geography, Vol.21(3), pp.225–373.
4.17 Kelly, Philip F., Olds, Kris and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (eds.) (2001), ‘Special
Issue: Geographical perspectives on the Asian economic crisis’, Geoforum, Vol.32(1), 1–
142.
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4.18 Coe, Neil M. and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (eds.) (2001), ‘Geographical perspectives
on international trade and investment’, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol.1(4),
pp.367–456.
4.19 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung and Lin, George G.S. (eds.) (2003), ‘Special Issue:
Theorizing Economic Geographies of Asia’, Economic Geography, Vol.79(2), pp.107–
214.
4.20 Hess, Martin and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (eds.) (2006), ‘Theme issue on global
production networks’, Environment and Planning A, Vol.38(7), pp.1193–1305.
4.21 Coe, Neil and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (eds.) (2006), ‘Teaching economic
geography’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol.30(3), pp.389–462.
4.22 Poon, Jessie P.H. and Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (eds.) (2009), ‘SJTG Special Forum:
Continental drift? Development issues in Asia, Latin America and Africa’, Singapore
Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol.30(1), pp.3–34.
4.23 Yeung, Henry Wai–chung (ed.) (2009), ‘Special issue on “Local and regional
development in Asia”’, Regional Studies, Vol.43(3), pp.325–512.
4.24 Neilson, Jeffrey, Pritchard , Bill and Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (eds.) (2014), ‘Special
issue on global value chains and global production networks in the changing international
political economy’, Review of International Political Economy, Vol.21(1), pp.1-274.
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