Flexible Embeddedness: In Conversation with Elisa Gambino

Global Development Institute podcast

Global Development Institute podcast
Flexible Embeddedness: In Conversation with Elisa Gambino
Oct 01, 2025
Global Development Institute

In this episode, Rory Horner speaks with Elisa Gambino about her latest paper 'Flexible embeddedness: how Chinese lead firms internationalise in Africa' with Costanza Franceschini.

The ‘rise of the South’, and particularly that of China, has promoted lively debates around the centrality of Southern firms in shaping the contours of twenty first century economic globalisation. This paper contributes to these debates by examining the internationalisation of Chinese lead firms. 

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