Financial and business services (FABS) as intermediaries play a significant role in global production networks (GPNs). Yet the mechanisms through which they influence the activities of lead and supplier firms in GPNs have received little in-depth attention. The paper addresses this shortcoming and examines how global legal business services configure the financial discipline of transnational corporations in Southeast Asia. It documents the way FABS articulate financial imperatives and encourage the reproduction of ‘global financial architectures’. It also shows, however, that temporal dynamics and spatial specificities in the power relations between FABS and transnational corporations (TNCs) generate variegated financial configurations. Southeast Asian TNCs adopt and adapt in ways that serve their interests. This implies that the governance effects of FABS have important temporal and spatial contingencies that need to be accounted for in analyses of GPNs.

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商业服务和全球生产网络的融资：以东南亚全球律师事务所为例

作为中介的金融和商业服务 (FABS) 在全球生产网络 (GPN) 中发挥着重要作用。然而，它们影响 GPN 中领先和供应商公司活动的机制很少受到深入关注。本文解决了这一缺陷，并研究了全球法律商业服务如何配置东南亚跨国公司的金融纪律。它记录了 FABS 阐明金融需求和鼓励“全球金融架构”复制的方式。然而，它还表明，FABS 与跨国公司 (TNC) 之间权力关系的时间动态和空间特性产生了多样化的金融配置。东南亚跨国公司以符合其利益的方式采用和适应。