Mainstream literature on global value chains (GVCs) and global production networks (GPNs) has increasingly demonstrated how the state and political conjunctures play a central role in strategic coupling. Nonetheless, scholarly attention still remains on the role of firms and their strategies. By focusing on firms, GVC and GPN scholars often underestimate the influence that non-firm actors such as the state have on strategic coupling, especially concerning its negative development implicationsits “dark side”. To contribute to this literature, this article proposes an approach and research agenda to examine how processes of corporate capture evolve via strategic coupling. This approach is based on the interplay of three variables: the strategic selectivity of states; the strategic action of firms; and states' predominant mode of insertion into GPNs. I argue that corporate capture is much more common and variegated in capitalist states and consequently in strategic coupling than often assumed in mainstream literature.

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企业捕获的多种形式：国家、跨国公司以及战略耦合的阴暗面

关于全球价值链（GVC）和全球生产网络（GPN）的主流文献越来越多地证明了国家和政治局势如何在战略耦合中发挥核心作用。尽管如此，学术界的注意力仍然集中在企业的作用及其战略上。由于关注企业，全球价值链和全球网络学者往往低估了国家等非企业行为体对战略耦合的影响，尤其是其负面发展影响（即“阴暗面”）。为了对这一文献做出贡献，本文提出了一种方法和研究议程，以研究企业捕获过程如何通过战略耦合演变。这种方法基于三个变量的相互作用：国家的战略选择性；公司的战略行动；以及各州插入 GPN 的主要模式。我认为，企业收购在资本主义国家中更为常见和多样化，因此在战略耦合方面比主流文献中通常假设的要普遍得多。