Chapter 3 discusses Global Production Networks (GPNs) and their actors, examining their interactions and the reterritorialization of capital in international business, including the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) and financialization. It also questions the effectiveness of NGOs in regulating TNC excesses. Chapter 4 defines technological change as a socially embedded process, lists its four types, and debates the significance of communication versus transportation technology.

1. Chapter 3
What are GPNs and how do they function and operate? Who are
the GPN actors that are referred to in Chapter 3 and do they
work with each other or against each other?
Discuss extent to which capital is becoming reterritorialized or
disembodied. What does this currently mean to international
business which attempts to expand internationally?
Discuss the extent to which TNCs and / or financialization
affect process of globalization, and vice versa.
Are Non-Government Production entities (NGOs) an effective
way to curb excesses of YNCs, or part of the problems?
Group #1 members will take the argument in support of this
statement that NGOs are an effective way to curb excesses of
TNCs.
Chapter 4
Technological change is defined as a socially and
institutionalized embedded process. Do you agree with this
statement and why or why not?
There are supposedly four types of technological change. List
them and define what they mean. Are there more? List these as
well.

2. Which is more significant, communications technology or
transportation technology?
Group #2 members are to take the position in support of
transportation technology.
Conduct the trends identified by this chapter and where they
might lead to the future, if at all.
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