Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil
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区域资产和网络转换：英国海上石油所有权、控制权和资本地域的转移
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10.1093/cjres/rsac016
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2022
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战略耦合的进化方法显示了地区如何利用和匹配资产，然后与牵头公司协商它们的结盟。然而，对于同一行业中多个网络相交的区域，网络-领土关系的重新配置可能具有聚合的、共同进化的效应，这种效应超过了对单个领导企业的耦合。在这种情况下，网络转换而不是资产匹配可能是区域转型的主要驱动因素，因为资产从一个领先企业转移到另一个领先企业，嵌入在质量不同的生产网络中，具有截然不同的权力动态和价值获取逻辑。我们分析了英国海上石油的转型，揭示了三种变化轨迹——所有权、控制权和资本的变化，这些变化源于不同类别的主导公司之间的区域资产转移；并确定在网络地理全球化和本地化的同步过程。我们认为，网络切换——由“重新领土化”的启发式引导——可以补充战略耦合。
Evolutionary approaches to strategic coupling show how regions harness and match assets, then negotiate their alignment with lead firms. For regions intersected by multiple networks in the same industry, however, the reconfiguration of network-territory relations can have aggregate, co-evolutionary effects that exceed coupling to a single lead firm. In such cases network switching rather than asset matching can be a primary driver of regional transformation, as assets transferred from one lead firm to another become embedded in qualitatively different production networks with contrasting power dynamics and logics of value capture. We analyse transformation in UK offshore oil to reveal three trajectories of change—in ownership, control, and capital—arising from the transfer of regional assets between different categories of lead firm; and identify simultaneous processes of globalisation and localisation in network geographies. We argue that network switching—guided by a heuristic of ‘re-territorialisation’—can complement strategic coupling.