The impact of strategic coupling pattern on the entry of regional industry under globalization:A case study in the Pearl River Delta,China
Current literature on regional industrial evolution has paid much attention to the impact of regional external linkages but strategic coupling,as an important variable in the global production network framework,has received little discussion.In view of this deficiency,this study employed the panel data of nine cities of Pearl River Delta from 2003 to 2016 to examine the impact of strategic coupling on the entry dynamics of regional industry,and empirically demonstrate the moderating effect of technological density of local industries on this process.The results show that:1)Regional external linkages have a significant impact on industrial entry,and the strategic coupling with strong dependency has a negative effect on the formation of new paths of industrial development.2)Technological relatedness has a positive moderating effect on the impact of strategic coupling on regional industrial entry,the role of strategic coupling impact on regional industrial dynamics changed after the 2008 financial crisis,and the importance of the local enterprises'technological innovation is further highlighted.This study quantitatively explored the strategic coupling patterns of nine cities in the Pearl River Delta,and empirically demonstrated the impact of strategic coupling on the dynamics of industrial entry,which is meaningful for promoting the fusion of relational economic geography and evolutionary economic geography.
strategic couplingentry of industrytechnological relatednessglobalizationfinancial crisis
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