The resilience of diversified clusters: Reconfiguring commodity networks in rural China during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Main Authors: HU, Zhanping, ZHANG, Qian Forrest
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: COVID-19 pandemic; resilience; diversified clusters; commodity chain; commodity network; economic cluster; Agribusiness; Asian Studies; Public Health; Work, Economy and Organizations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3563; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4821/viewcontent/2022_Land_Cluster_pvoa_cc_by.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We conceptualize typical rural communities in China as diversified economic clusters. In normal times, economic actors in these communities rarely cooperate with each other, but are integrated into separate commodity chains. These “diversified clusters”, however, show resilience and flexibility when...