Informal Dynamics of Agile Firm Organisation in the Greater Pearl River Delta

大珠江三角洲(GPRD)的经济活动嵌入了支离破碎的全球价值链，并受到香港和中国内地空间分工的影响。在这种竞争环境中，商业的成功取决于公司利用非正式和正式制度的能力和资源。在这种背景下，我们的项目是基于这样的假设，即公司可以通过灵活的公司组织获得持续的竞争优势-一种组织创新，以抓住机会并主动应对动荡市场中的不确定威胁。我们的多学科联盟涵盖1)促进GPRD敏捷企业组织的治理和机构的非正规性连续体，2)敏捷企业组织的区域经济基础，以及3)稳定和平滑区域敏捷性的社会动力。由于密集的投入市场和独特的全球-当地界面，特大城市地区为灵活的公司组织提供了最佳条件。敏捷企业正在推动超大城市经济，并对其社会、政治和生态发展产生更广泛的影响。因此，我们的主题是一个著名的新兴领域，以解释超大城市地区全球变化的非正式动态。

Economic activities in the Greater Pearl River Delta (GPRD) are embedded into fragmented global value chains and shaped by the spatial division of labour between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. Business success in such competitive environments depends on competences and resources of firms to capitalise on both informal and formal institutions. Against this background, our project is based on the assumption that a firm can achieve a sustained competitive advantage by agile firm organisation - an organisational innovation to seize opportunities and to cope with uncertain threats in volatile markets proactively. Our multidisciplinary consortium covers 1) the informality continuum of governance and institutions facilitating agile firm organisation in the GPRD, 2) the regional economic rationale of agile firm organisations, and 3) social dynamics that stabilise and smoothen regional agility. Mega-urban regions offer the best conditions for agile firm organisation due to thick input markets and distinct global-local interfaces. Agile firms are boosting megaurban economies and have wider impacts on its social, political, and ecological development. Hence, our topic is an eminent emerging field to explain the informal dynamics of global change in mega-urban regions.