Publications

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• Yeung, Godfrey (forthcoming) “Competitive Dynamics of Lead Firms and their Systems Suppliers in the Automotive Industry”, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. article 1202390 available here
• Huang, Xiaodong., Yeung, Godfrey., Du, Debin (forthcoming) “Does Technological Intensity matter for Global Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions in Manufacturing, 1998-2018? ”, Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie.
• Liu, Yi., Yeung, Godfrey Zhang, Yifan., Huang, Kaixuan., Zhang, Xiaolin and Liu, Yingtiao (forthcoming) “Strategic Coupling, Cross-scalar Tension and Local Upgrading in the Globalizing Automotive Industry in Guangzhou, China”, Global Network. available here
• Huang, Xiaodong., Yeung, Godfrey., Du, Debin and Li, Tingzhu (forthcoming) “ Proximity and Cross-border Acquisitions of Technology Assets by Chinese Firms, 2001-2018”, Eurasian Geography and Economics.
• Yeung, Godfrey and Liu, Yi (2023) “Local Government Policies and Public Transport Decarbonization through the Production and Adoption of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs) in China”, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 422, 10 October 2023, article 138552. available here
• Yeung, Godfrey (2023) “Codifiability and Geographical Proximity of Supply Networks in Automotive Industry”, ERDKUNDE – Archive for Scientific Geography, Volume 77, No. 2, pp. 91-111. available here
• Yeung, Godfrey and Liu, Yi (2023) “Hybrid Governance of Joint Ventures in Transitional Economies: The case of Guangzhou Automobile Group in China”, Review of International Political Economy, Volume 30, No. 3, pp. 1177-1201. available here
• Yeung, Godfrey and Lui, Tai-lok (2022) “The Sinicisation of the Hong Kong economy or the Hongkongnisation of the Greater Bay Area: Are we ‘barking up the wrong tree’?”, Asia Pacific Business Review, Volume 28, Issue 5, pp. 719-739 available here
• Huang, Kaixuan and Yeung, Godfrey (2022) “Economic Geographies of Asian International Financial Centers: A Sympathetic Critique”, ERDKUNDE – Archive for Scientific Geography, Volume 76, No. 4, pp. 239-253. available here
• McGregor, Neil and Yeung, Godfrey (2022) “ Strategic Coupling, Path Creation and Diversification: Oil-related Development in the ‘Straits Region’ since 1959”, The Extractive Industries and Society , Volume 11, article 101085. available here
• Song, Yang., Yeung, Godfrey., Zhu, Daolin., Xu, Yang and Zhang, Lixin (2022) “Efficiency of Urban Land Use in China’s Resource-based Cities, 2000-2018”, Land Use Policy, Vol. 115, article 130582. available here [PDF]
• Wang, Xueli., Yeung, Godfrey., Li, Xiangyang and Wang, Lei (2022) “Does Inter-regional Investment by Listed Companies Promote Local Green Total Factor Productivity? A Study of the Meditation Effect based on Green Patents in China”, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 339, article 130582. available here [PDF]
• Liu, Yi., Yeung, Godfrey., Liang, Yu-tian and Li, Xun (2022) “Pro-active regional policy and the relocation of manufacturing firms: A case study of state-led industrial relocation in Guangdong, China”, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Volume 63, Issue 3, pp. 362-395. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey (2021) “Chinese State-owned Commercial Banks under Reform: Inefficient, but yet Credible and Functional?”, Journal of Chinese Governance, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 198-231. available here [PDF]
• Song, Yang., Yeung, Godfrey., Zhu, Daolin., Zhang, Lixin., Xu, Yang and Zhang, Lanyue. (2020) “Efficiency of Logistics Land Use: The case of Yangtze River Economic Belt in China, 2000-2017”, Journal of Transport Geography, Vol. 88, October 2020. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey (2019) “Made in China 2025”: The Development of a New Energy Vehicle Industry in China”, Area Development and Policy, Volume 4, No. 1, pp. 39-59. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey., He, Canfei and Zhang, Peng (2017) “Rural Banking in China: A Case of Centralization?”, Area Development and Policy, Volume 2, No. 2, pp. 173-191. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey He, Canfei and Zhang, Peng (2017) “Rural Banking in China: Geographically Accessible but Conditionally Excluded?”, Regional Studie, Volume 51, No. 2, pp. 297-312. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey (2016) “The Operation of Global Production Networks (GPNs) 2.0 and Methodological Constraints”, Geoforum, Volume 75, pp. 265-269. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey and Ang, Kim Leng (2016) “Online Fashion Retailing and Retail Geography: The Blogshop Phenomenon in Singapore”, Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, Volume 107, Issue 1, pp. 81-91. available here [PDF]
• Smart, Alan, Yeung, Godfrey and Lui, Tai Lok (2015) “Gifts to a Former Mentor: Hong Kong’s Contribution to the Rise of China and the Consequences of that Rise for the Current Relationship”, Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, Volume 11, Number 2, pp. 81-113. [PDF]
• Dunford, Michael., Liu, Weidong., Liu, Zhigao and Yeung, Godfrey (2014) “Geography, Trade and Regional Development: The Role of Wage Costs, Exchange Rates and Currency/Capital Movements”, Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 14, Issue 6, pp. 1175-1197. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey and Mok, Vincent (2013) “Manufacturing and Distribution Strategies, Distribution Channels, and Transaction Costs: The Case of Parallel Imported Automobiles”, Managerial and Decision Economics, Volume 34, Issue 1, pp. 44-58. available here [PDF]
• Dunford, Michael., Lee, Kyoung Hoon., Liu, Weidong and Yeung, Godfrey (2013) “Geographical Interdependence, International Trade and Economic Dynamics: The Chinese and German Solar Energy Industries”, European Urban and Regional Studies, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 14-36. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey., He, Canfei and Liu, Hao (2012) “Centralization and Marginalization: The Chinese Banking Industry in Reform”, Applied Geography, Volume 32, Issue 2, pp. 854-867. available here [PDF]
• Li, Li., Dunford, Michael and Yeung, Godfrey (2012) “International Trade and Industrial Dynamics: Geographical and Structural Dimensions of Chinese and Sino-EU Merchandise Trade”, Applied Geography, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp. 130-142. available here [PDF]
• He, Canfei and Yeung, Godfrey (2011) “Locational Distribution of Foreign Banks in China: A Disaggregated Analysis”, Regional Studies, Volume 45, No. 6, pp. 733-754. available here [PDF]
• Dunford, Michael and Yeung, Godfrey (2011) “Towards Global Convergence: Emerging Economies, The Rise of China and Western Sunset?”, European Urban and Regional Studies, Volume 18, No. 1, pp. 22-46. available here [PDF]
• Mok, Vincent., Yeung, Godfrey., Han, Zhaozhou and Li, Zongzhang (2010) “Export Orientation and Technical Efficiency: Clothing Firms in China”, Managerial and Decision Economics, Volume 31, Issue 7, pp. 453-463. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey (2009) “Hybrid Property, Path Dependence, Market Segmentation and Financial Exclusion: The Case of the Banking Industry in China”, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2009, pp. 177-194. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey (2009) "How Banks in China make Lending Decisions”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 18, No. 59, pp. 285-302. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey and Mok, Vincent (2008) “ISO 9000 Certification and Technical Efficiency of Foreign-financed Manufacturing Firms in Southern China: A Stochastic Frontier Approach”, Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 385-404. available here [PDF]
• Wu, Zai Bin., Yeung, Godfrey., Mok, Vincent and Han, Zhaozhou (2007) “Firm-specific Knowledge and Technical Efficiency of Watch and Clock Manufacturing Firms in China”, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 107, pp. 317-332. available here [PDF]
• Mok, Vincent., Yeung, Godfrey., Han, Zhaozhou and Li, Zongzhang (2007) “Leverage, Technical Efficiency, and Profitability: An Application of DEA to Foreign-invested Toy Manufacturing Firms in China”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 16, No. 51, pp. 259-274. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey and Mok, Vincent (2006) “Regional Monopoly and Interregional and Intraregional Competition: The Parallel Trade in Coca-Cola Between Shanghai and Hangzhou in China”, Economic Geography, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 89-109. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey and Mok, Vincent (2005) “What are the Impacts of Implementing ISOs on the Competitiveness of Manufacturing Industry in China?”, Journal of World Business, Vol. 40, Issue 2, pp. 139-157. available here [PDF]
• Mok, Vincent and Yeung, Godfrey (2005) “Employee Motivation, External Orientation and Technical Efficiency of Foreign-financed Firms in China: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis”, Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 175-190. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey and Mok, Vincent (2004) “Does WTO Accession Matter for the Chinese Textile and Clothing Industry?”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 937-954. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey and Mok, Vincent (2002) “WTO Accession and Managerial Challenges for Manufacturing Sectors in Southern China”, Asia Pacific Business Review (special issue: The Future of Chinese Management), Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 158-183. available here [PDF]
• Mok, Vincent., Dai, Xiudian and Yeung, Godfrey (2002) “An Internalization Approach to Joint Ventures: The Case of Coca-Cola in China”, Asia Pacific Business Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 39-58. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey (2002) “WTO Accession, the Changing Competitiveness of Foreign-financed Firms and Regional Development in Guangdong of Southern China”, Regional Studies, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 627-642. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey (2002) “The Implications of WTO Accession on the Pharmaceutical Industry in China”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 11, No. 32, pp. 473-493. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey and Mok, Vincent (2002) “Government Policy and Competitive Advantages of Foreign-financed Firms in the Guangdong Province of Southern China”, Asian Business & Management, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 227-247. available here [PDF]
• Nolan, Peter and Yeung, Godfrey (2001) “Big Business with Chinese Characteristics: Two Paths to Growth of the Firm in China under Reform”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 443-465. available here [PDF]
• Yeung, Godfrey (2001) “Foreign Direct Investment and Investment Environment in Dongguan Municipality of Southern China”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 10, No. 26, pp. 125-154. available here [PDF]
• Nolan, Peter and Yeung, Godfrey (2001) “Large Firms and Catch-up in a Transitional Economy: The Case of Shougang Group in China”, Economics of Planning (special issue: “China’s Two Decades of Economic Reform”), Vol. 34, No. 1-2, pp. 159-178. available here [PDF]

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

• Yeung, Godfrey (2001) Foreign Investment and Socio-economic Development in China: The Case of Dongguan. Basingstoke: Palgrave. (273 pages) ISBN: 0-333-77825-1

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• Yeung, Godfrey (forthcoming in 2023) “Strategic Decoupling, Selective Decoupling or Recoupling of Global Supply Chains in Manufacturing GPNs during the post COVID-19 era” in Andres, Lauren., Bryson, John., Ersoy, Aksel and Reardon, Louise (eds.) Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges, pp. 164-176 (chapter 11).
• Yeung, Godfrey (2022) “Megatrends and Research Agendas in the Automotive Industry”, in Bryson, John R., Billing, Chloe., Graves, William and Yeung, Godfrey. (eds) A Research Agenda for Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy. Edward Elgar. pp. 67-89 (chapter 4) webpage

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

• Bryson, John R., Billing, Chloe., Graves, William and Yeung, Godfrey (eds.) (2022) A Research Agenda for Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy, Edward Elgar. ISBN: 978 1 78990 850 3 webpage

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• Bryson, John R., Billing, Chloe., Graves, William and Yeung, Godfrey (2022) “Reframing Manufacturing Research: Place, Production, Risk and Theory”, in Bryson, John R., Billing, Chloe., Graves, William and Yeung, Godfrey. (eds) A Research Agenda for Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy. Edward Elgar. pp. 1-32 (chapter 1) webpage
• Yeung, Godfrey (2020) “The Public Banks and People’s Bank of China: Confronting COVID-19 (if not without controversy)”, in McDonald, David A., Marois, Thomas and Barrowclough, Diana (eds.) Public Banks and COVID-19: Combatting the Pandemic with Public Finance, Municipal Services Project (Kingston), UNCTAD (Geneva) and the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) (Brussels), pp. 283-293 (chapter 13). [PDF]
• Dunford, Michael and Yeung, Godfrey (2020) “Regional Development: Port-industrial Complexes” in Kobayashi, Audrey (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2nd ed.) Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 271-280. available here
• Yeung, Godfrey (2019) “End of a Chapter? Hong Kong Manufacturers in the Pearl River Delta”, in Liu, Tai-lok, Yep, Ray and Chiu, Wing-kai. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong. London: Routledge Cheltenham, Chapter, 22, pp. 397-413.
• Yeung, Godfrey (2018) “Global production networks and regeneration economies” in Bryson, John R., Andres, Lauren and Mulhall, Rachel. (eds.) A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies. Edward Elgar. pp. 90-106.
• Yeung, Godfrey (2017) “Banking reform in China: A balancing act between financial viability and financial security?”, in Martin, Ron and Pollard, Jane. (eds.) Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 454-477.
• Yeung, Godfrey (2017) “Trade, FDI, and Industrial Development”, in Richardson, Douglas., Castree, Noel., Goodchild, Michael., Weidong, Liu., Kobayashi, Audrey and Marston, Richard (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 7063-7074.
• Yeung, Godfrey (2017) “Local/Global Production Systems”, in Richardson, Douglas., Castree, Noel., Goodchild, Michael., Weidong, Liu., Kobayashi, Audrey and Marston, Richard (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 4111-4113.
• Yeung, Godfrey (2017) “Comparative Advantage”, in Richardson, Douglas., Castree, Noel., Goodchild, Michael., Weidong, Liu., Kobayashi, Audrey and Marston, Richard (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 885-891
• Yeung, Godfrey (2017) “Flexible Specialization”, in Richardson, Douglas., Castree, Noel., Goodchild, Michael., Weidong, Liu., Kobayashi, Audrey and Marston, Richard (eds.) The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 2451-2453.
• Yeung, Godfrey (2017) “Firm Foundation and Growth”, in Richardson, Douglas., Castree, Noel., Goodchild, Michael., Weidong, Liu., Kobayashi, Audrey and Marston, Richard (eds.) The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 2420-2431.
• Yeung, Godfrey (2015) “From Singapore ONE to Intelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015): A Case for State-driven Initiatives for Innovation?”, in Dai, Xiudian (ed.) World Scientific Reference on Globalisation in Eurasia and the Pacific Rim, Volume 2: Innovation. (Editor-in-Chief: David A Dyker) Singapore: World Scientific & Imperial College Press, Chapter 2, pp. 25-42
• Mok, Vincent., Yeung, Godfrey and Xu, Xiaoping. (2010) “Accessibility to Bank Loans in China: Ownership and Bank Credit Management Practices” in Guo, Lian & Zong, Fai (eds.) Business, Finance & Economics of China. New York: Nova Science, pp. 155-166. ISBN: 978-1-60741-299-1
• Dunford, Michael and Yeung, Godfrey (2009) “Regional Development: Port-industrial Complexes” in Kitchin, Rob and Thrift, Nigel (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Volume 8, pp. 285-294. ISBN-10: 0-08-044911-5
• Yeung, Godfrey and Mok, Vincent (2008) “An Overview of the Competitive Advantages of Foreign and Chinese Banks in China” in Lakatos, Gergõ M. (ed.) Transition Economies: 21^st Century Issues and Challenges. Nova, pp. 3-6. ISBN: 978-1-60456-082-4
• Yeung, Godfrey (2003) “Scramble for FDI: The Experience of Guangdong Province in Southern China” in Phelps, Nicholas A. and Raines, Philip (eds.), The New Competition for Inward Investment: Companies, Institutions and Territorial Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 193-212. ISBN: 1-84064-785-X
• Yeung, Godfrey and Mok, Vincent (2003) “WTO Accession and Managerial Challenges for Manufacturing Sectors in Southern China” in Warner, Malcolm (ed.), The Future of Chinese Management. London: Frank Cass, pp. 158-183. ISBN: 0-7146-5550-3
• Yeung, Godfrey (1995 & 1999) “The People’s Liberation Army and the Market Economy” in Benewick, Robert and Wingrove, Paul (eds.), China in the 1990s. London: Macmillan, pp. 158-168. (revised edition published in 1999) ISBN: 0-333-60137-8