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Faculty Scholar Detail, 2005-2006Xiangming ChenProfessor, Department of Sociology College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Challenges to Regional and Local Governance: Globalization, Metropolitan Extension, and Value Chain Coordination in the Greater Shanghai Region As a Great Cities Faculty Scholar for Fall 2005, Professor Chen conducted a new research project on the relationship between global value chains, institutional governance, and local industrial upgrading in the Greater Shanghai Region. Dr. Chen’s work resulted in a GCI working paper — Regionalizing the Global-Local Economic Nexus: A Tale of Two Regions in China. The research offers a new framework for conceptualizing and analyzing region as capable of mediating or restructuring global-local economic relations in varied ways. It describes the structural and spatial formations of regionalized global-local value chains and production networks, analyzes the opportunities and constraints for indigenous Chinese firms in the two regions of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) and the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) to achieve industrial upgrading. Dr. Chen’s research as a GCI scholar builds on the research conducted for his book As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). The Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholars Program brings UIC faculty to the institute for a year in residence to begin, further, or complete an engaged research project. Scholars are free from their formal teaching responsibilities during their term. Prospective scholars apply by submitting a proposal that is peer reviewed along three key metrics of engaged research: interdisciplinarity, partnership, and impact. GCI Faculty Scholars implement and further their own research agendas, as well as develop grant proposals, participate in the Great Cities Institute Lecture Series, and contribute to the Great Cities Institute Working Paper Series. Applications are released in the fall semester and due at the start of the spring semester. |
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