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중국 경제성장에 핵심적 역할을 해왔던 광동성(廣東省) 동관시(東蒄市)는 지리적으로 근접해 있는 홍콩을 이용하여 지속적인 경제발전을 추구해 왔다. 1980년대 초반은 홍콩으로부터 가전산업 관련 중소 다국적 기업이 동관지역에 진출하여 생산 공장을 세우고, 그 후 1990년 중반에는 대만의 PC제조업체의 진출이 잇따르면서 현재 동관에는 정보통신산업과 PC부품 및 전자산업 중심으로 지역 산업클러스터가 발전해 왔다. 동관시 산업클러 스터 사례는 개혁개방 이후 중국 제조업 산업의 발전뿐만 아니라, 글로벌 시대에 해외직접투자와 아시아지역에서 의 지역경제의 성장 및 산업발전과정의 연구에 대한 이론적 시사점을 줄 수 있는 지역적 사례 중의 하나다. 본 연구는 광동성 동관시 지역산업클러스터의 사례를 중심으로 이론적으로는 지역산업발전의 내생적 성장요인 분석 (NMID) 혹은 글로벌 생산네트워크와의 외부적 연계성을 기초로 하는 산업의 지역적 분화(GPN)에 대한 이 두 관점을 상호 비교하고, 글로벌 융합전략을 설명하였다.

Dongguan City of Guangdong province, one of the core areas of the Pearl River Delta, has also pursued economic development through the geographical advantage close to Hong Kong. In the early 1980s, small and medium-sized multinational corporations related to home appliances industry from Hong Kong invested to the Dongguan area and set up a production factory. In the mid-1990s, as Taiwanese PC manufacturers invested, local industrial clusters have developed in Dongguan with core of the IT, PC components and electronic industries. The case of the IT industrial cluster in Dongguan is a typical example of the development of Chinese manufacturing industry after the reform of China. This paper focused on the coupling strategy case of Dongguan City industrial cluster in Guangdong province, and theoretically compared the endogenous growth factor analysis(NMID) of regional industrial development with the regional differentiation of industry based on external linkage with global production network(GPN).

This paper aims to understand the risk of upgrading strategy by analyzing the strategic coupling between the Taiwanese flat panel display (FPD) industry and its Japanese counterpart. Strategic coupling between the Taiwanese FPD industry and Japanese firms gave a critical advantage to the Taiwanese FPD industry, yet simultaneously, Taiwanese firms were forced to become technologically dependent on Japanese firms. Cost performance production strategy, global collaboration network, and adjusting Japanese technologies in the Taiwanese FPD industry are the main development mechanism of strategic coupling between Taiwanese FPD manufacturers and Japanese firms. However, this strategic coupling also has negative effects on the Taiwanese FPD industry. Namely, it has had negative effects on industrial upgrading due to the lack of long-term human resource development and in-house technology accumulation. These findings serve as an opportunity to develop a more profound theoretical framework of the industrial upgrading strategy of local firms embedded in global value chains.