5 important state function ...................................................................................................................

192

Agglomeration economies .................................................................................................................... 136

Back-offices ........................................................................................................................................... 129

Bandwagon ........................................................................................................................................... 190

Call center ............................................................................................................................................. 129

Clusters ................................................................................................................................................. 144

Codified knowledge .............................................................................................................................. 139

Communications systems ..................................................................................................................... 125

Core competencies ............................................................................................................................... 137

Firms births and deaths ........................................................................................................................ 141

GLCs....................................................................................................................................................... 198

Globalization excuse ............................................................................................................................. 189

Industry gossip ...................................................................................................................................... 142

Informal collaboration .......................................................................................................................... 141

Information technology services .......................................................................................................... 129

International organizations ................................................................................................................... 211

Just-in-case............................................................................................................................................ 134

Just-in-time ........................................................................................................................................... 134

Localization economies ......................................................................................................................... 137

Macro-regional grouping ...................................................................................................................... 211

Major types of economic policies pursued by nation-state ................................................................. 196

Mass customization .............................................................................................................................. 134

Nodes in global networks ..................................................................................................................... 147

Offshore service .................................................................................................................................... 129

Organization of economic institutions .................................................................................................. 203

Placeless production ............................................................................................................................. 121

Political governance systems ................................................................................................................ 203

Proximity ............................................................................................................................................... 147

Public goods .......................................................................................................................................... 199

Regulator............................................................................................................................................... 194

Scapegoat .............................................................................................................................................. 190

Services ................................................................................................................................................. 199

Shares suppliers .................................................................................................................................... 141

SOEs ...................................................................................................................................................... 198

Space-shrinking technology .................................................................................................................. 125

Staff turnover ........................................................................................................................................ 141

Strategic economic polices ................................................................................................................... 197

Tacit knowledge .................................................................................................................................... 139

The advent of commercial jet aircraft .................................................................................................. 125

The advent of containerization ............................................................................................................. 126

Trackside observation ........................................................................................................................... 142

Trade interdependencies ...................................................................................................................... 137

Transportation systems ........................................................................................................................ 125

Transportation technologies ................................................................................................................. 125

Types of states ...................................................................................................................................... 202

Ultimate guarantor ............................................................................................................................... 192

Ultra-globalist ....................................................................................................................................... 191

Untraded interdependencies ................................................................................................................ 139

Urbanization economies ....................................................................................................................... 137

Vertical disintegration........................................................................................................................... 137