Agency, power, and state-firm relations in global financial networks

Lai, Karen P.Y.

Abstract

In response to Töpfer’s incisive critique of how current work on global production networks and global financial networks (GFNs) have been too firm-centric and reliant on neoliberal market framings, this commentary highlights three key points for developing a deeper conceptualization of the state in financial processes and networks. The first addresses the role of the state and inter-firm relations, the second deals with conceptualizations of power and agency, and the third is a call to go boldly beyond authoritarian capitalist regimes in moving toward a state-led conceptualization of GFNs.

Citation

Lai, K. P. (2018). Agency, power, and state-firm relations in global financial networks. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(3), 285-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820618797463

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Nov 8, 2018
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Aug 31, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 10, 2021
• Journal: Dialogues in Human Geography
• Print ISSN: 2043-8206
• Electronic ISSN: 2043-8214
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 285-288
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820618797463
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1323873