Book · December 29, 2023
How to study the globalization of the economy? What are the scenarios for globalization processes in the post-pandemic era? This book takes stock of the current debate starting with the studies of Prof. Gary Gereffi (Duke University), who developed the the ...
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Journal ArticleColumbia FDI Perspectives · September 18, 2023
New industrial policies should not aim for self-sufficiency, but rather for more secure supply chains that rely on diversified international suppliers and some domestic suppliers. Because major economies are pursuing similar goals, new industrial policies ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Industrial and Business Economics · March 1, 2023
Climate crises are being experienced all over the world and appear to be accelerating as “extreme weather” events become the “new normal.” In today’s world economy, where trade and production activities are internationally dispersed and prone to disruption ...
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Journal ArticleColumbia FDI Perspectives · January 9, 2023
Post-pandemic, companies have four main options to reduce rigidity and increase resilience in global supply chains: make them more domestic (e.g., reshoring, stockpiles); make them shorter (e.g., reducing the physical distances traversed by supply chains t ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Networks · October 1, 2022
New digital technologies based on the internet of things and artificial intelligence play centre stage in contemporary discussions about the prospects for economic development and the future of work. This article summarizes theoretical and empirical contri ...
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Chapter · September 17, 2022
China’s role in global value chains (GVCs) has changed fundamentally in recent decades. The country has moved from being the world factory for a diverse range of low-tech, mid-tech, and high-tech consumer goods to the goal of becoming a technological leade ...
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Chapter · September 17, 2022
Active Local Governments and New Chinese Firms in Emerging Industries in Kunshan and Dongguan ...
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Chapter · September 17, 2022
Utilizing diverse qualitative and quantitative evidence from two advanced manufacturing sectors, industrial robots and high-tech medical devices, this chapter identifies the upgrading trends of Chinese domestic firms from a global value chain (GVC) perspec ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironment and Planning A · September 1, 2022
In this study, we introduce a unique longitudinal dataset from the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance Annual Survey (IMEFAS) to assess how micro and small enterprises (MSEs) partake in the global economy by tapping into global value chains (GVCs). The ...
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Journal ArticleCambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society · July 1, 2022
This article assesses how the reshoring of manufacturing activities by micro and small enterprises (MSEs) affects the performances of co-located subcontracting networks and the reconfiguration of global value chains (GVCs). We utilize quantitative microdat ...
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Journal ArticleCalifornia Management Review · February 1, 2022
This article examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on resilience. Resilience is not a one-dimensional concept but has different meanings at the levels of the firm (operational efficiency), the global value chain (appropriate governance), and the na ...
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Book · January 1, 2022
This book examines China's new development policies, which seek to reposition China from export platform for a diverse array of low-cost consumer goods to technological leader in sectors linked to advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, electric v ...
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Journal ArticleGrowth and Change · December 1, 2021
The article develops an analytical framework for an adaptable and evolutionary pro-growth coalition led by local government to understand regional industrial transformation in developing China. Taking Kunshan as an example, we argue that evolutionary and a ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Labour Review · December 1, 2021
Global production and trade organized in global value chains (GVCs) have structured labour governance and the conditions of work for multiple decades. Since the early 2000s, a series of new economic, technological and political disruptions, along with the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Policy · December 1, 2021
The recent U.S.–China trade conflicts cast new light on the role of trade policies in global value chains (GVCs). Contrary to the expectation that trade restrictions lead to the shrinking or disruption of GVCs, our article posits that the unintended conseq ...
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Journal ArticleIndustrial and Corporate Change · February 1, 2021
The fourth industrial revolution challenges the existing understanding of innovation and upgrading in the global economy. It blurs traditional sectoral boundaries based on distinctive products and technologies and calls into question a traditional global v ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Policy · August 25, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a dramatic shortage in the medical supplies needed to treat the virus due to a massive surge in demand as the disease circled the globe during the first half of 2020. Prior to the crisis, there was an interdependence of tra ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Strategy Journal · August 1, 2020
Research summary: We contend that a synthesis between the literatures on global strategy and global value chains (GVCs) is mutually beneficial. A typology of four themes—managed cross-border activities, network optimization, bottom-up upgrading, and strate ...
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Chapter · January 3, 2020
In recent decades, profound changes in the structure of the global economy have reshaped global production and trade and have altered the organization of industries and national economies into global value chains (GVCs). As GVCs became global in scope, mor ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2020
This chapter uses the global value chain (GVC) framework to analyse the shifting strategies of key lead firms and first-tier suppliers in the athletic footwear and electronics industries. Growing cost pressures for labour and raw materials, as well as the ...
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Book · October 31, 2019
This Handbook describes how GVCs arise and vary across industries and countries, and how they have evolved over time in response to economic and political forces. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Business Policy · September 1, 2019
This article argues that the global value chains (GVC) perspective bridges the firm-specific, private-sector and country-level, societal divide that has separated the international business and international economics literatures. A key mechanism that expl ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Contemporary Asia · January 1, 2019
The economic and social gains from electronic commerce (e-commerce) that promote innovation, industry upgrading and economic growth have been widely discussed. China’s successful experience with e-commerce has had a positive effect in transforming consumer ...
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Journal ArticleTransnational Corporations · January 1, 2019
Costa Rica has sought to improve its position in the global economy by prioritizing export growth in two high-tech manufacturing industries led by foreign direct investment (FDI): electronics and medical devices. We use a global value chain (GVC) perspecti ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
This introductory chapter provides an overview of what global value chains (GVCs) are, and why they are important. It presents a genealogy of the emergence of GVCs as a concept and analytical framework, and some reflections on more recent developments in t ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
The chapter discusses the co-evolution of clusters and global value chains (GVCs) and proposes an integrated analysis of the organization of economic activities between the global and local levels. It explores the evolutionary characteristics of local clus ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
International organizations (IOs) with a development mission have gravitated in nearly universal fashion to adopting some version of global value chain (GVC) analysis since the early 2000s. This chapter explains both the timing and the mechanisms that unde ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
Economic upgrading is a core concept in the GVC framework. This chapter reviews key typologies and trajectories of upgrading, and discusses the limits to upgrading concepts and case studies from the extant literature. New directions in the research on econ ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
This chapter provides an overview of the key concepts and methodological tools used in GVC analysis. During the past decade, interest and use of the GVC framework have grown exponentially among academics, development practitioners, policymakers and a wide ...
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Conference · January 1, 2019
East Asia’s export industries have become increasingly diversified, internationalized, and regionally integrated. The world textile and apparel industry has undergone several migrations of production since the 1950s and they all involve Asia. The first mig ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Contemporary Asia · June 19, 2018
The economic and social gains from electronic commerce (e-commerce) that promote innovation, industry upgrading and economic growth have been widely discussed. China’s successful experience with e-commerce has had a positive effect in transforming consumer ...
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Book · January 3, 2018
The nine chapters in this book, which are all authored or co-authored by Gary Gereffi, bring together many of the most important academic contributions to the global value chains (GVC) literature, which also have had considerable policy impact. Some of the ...
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Book · January 2, 2018
This book is of interest to both researchers and policy-makers who are interested in the dynamic sources of competitive advantage in the global economy. ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
Tourism is an important driver of economic growth around the world. While Europe remains the most visited continent in the world, Asia Pacific and Africa had the highest growth rates in visitors over the decade spanning 2005–14. With a wide array of animal ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
As childhood obesity and overweight statistics continue to rise throughout the globe, a broader analysis regarding the economic, political, and social contexts that shape children's food choices is needed. This chapter advances a multilevel approach to stu ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
In the digital economy, what are the strategies of multinationals from developed countries and emerging markets? How do regulations in the home country affect their growth? Recent digital multinationals in diverse national and institutional contexts raise ...
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Book · January 1, 2018
Globalization has transformed how nations, firms and workers compete in the international economy over the past half century. This book by Gary Gereffi, one of the founders of the global value chains (GVC) framework, traces the emergence of arguably the mo ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
Introduction: Upgrading through global value chains (GVCs), or moving to higher value activities, has become important for economic development and job creation in the global economy, where competition remains intense and production has become fragmented a ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
A significant proportion of trade now takes place through coordinated value chains in which lead firms play a dominant role globally and locally. The outsourcing of production by Northern buyers has stimulated the growth of manufacturing, agriculture, and ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
Introduction: The decade of the 1980s witnessed the widespread adoption of export-led growth strategies and neoliberal policies prescribing open markets and privatization programs in much of the developing world. Development research in the 1990s focused p ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
Introduction: The last two decades have witnessed a remarkable burst of innovation in ‘private governance’, i.e., non-governmental institutions that ‘govern-that is they enable and constrain-a broad range of economic activities in the world economy’. These ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
Importance of Global Value Chains: The global economy is increasingly structured around global value chains (GVCs) that account for a rising share of international trade, global gross domestic product, and employment. The evolution of GVCs in diverse secto ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
The world economy has changed in significant ways during the past several decades, especially in the areas of international trade and industrial organization. Two of the most important new features of the contemporary economy are the globalization of produ ...
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Chapter · December 15, 2017
As Latin America’s role in global value chains (GVCs) expands, a new set of issues has emerged regarding how the region can maximize its potential gains from engaging in the global economy. Central to this challenge is how countries can move up the value ...
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Report · September 15, 2017
The Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET) commissioned a global value chain study to Duke University Global Value Chains Center (Duke GVCC). The goal of this study is to analyze the country’s participation in specific global industries to ...
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Journal ArticleComercio Exterior · August 31, 2017
Con el arribo de Donald Trump a la presidencia de Estados Unidos, se intensificaron las especulaciones sobre el futuro del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN). En respuesta a una noticia aparecida a finales de abril de este ano, donde s ...
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Report · January 31, 2017
As Africa continues to attract record numbers of international arrivals, there are industry undercurrents that influence the continent’s participation in tourism value chains. African tourism is characterized by high foreign demand, which elevates the posi ...
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Journal Article · 2017
I distretti industriali sono molto cambiati da come descritti nelle iniziali opere di Beccatini e colleghi, evolvendosi in forme diverse tra loro. Tre traiettorie evolutive sembrano poter descrivere tale multiforme, recente, trasformazione: declino, gerarc ...
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Report · July 29, 2016
The first edition of Global Value Chain Analysis: A Primer was released five years ago (May 2011) in order to provide an overview of the key concepts and methodological tools used by Duke University’s Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness ( ...
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Report · July 27, 2016
The report is based on a desk-based review, drawing upon existing studies of global supply chains (GSCs) to examine their impacts and implications for the development of domestic firms, their contribution to productive transformation and structural change ...
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Report · July 26, 2016
El informe se basa en una revisión documental, aprovechando estudios existentes sobre las cadenas mundiales de suministro (CMS), para examinar sus impactos e implicaciones en el desarrollo de las empresas nacionales, su contribución a la transformación pro ...
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Report · May 20, 2016
This report uses the Duke CGGC Global Value Chain (GVC) framework to examine the role of the Philippines in the global aerospace industry and identify opportunities for the country to upgrade. The Philippines is a newcomer to the growing global aerospace m ...
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Report · May 20, 2016
This report uses the Duke CGGC Global Value Chain (GVC) framework to examine the role of the Philippines in the global automotive industry and identify opportunities for upgrading. The country’s strength in the sector is in electrical and electronic automo ...
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Report · May 20, 2016
This report uses the Duke CGGC global value chain (GVC) framework to examine the role of the Philippines in the global electronics & electrical (E&E) industry and identify opportunities to upgrade. Electronics and electrical equipment have played an import ...
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Report · May 20, 2016
This report uses the Duke CGGC global value chain (GVC) framework to examine the role of the Philippines in the global chemical industry and identify opportunities for the country to upgrade. The Philippine chemicals sector is growing rapidly alongside eco ...
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Report · May 20, 2016
This report uses the Duke CGGC Global Value Chain (GVC) framework to examine the role of the Philippines in the global paper industry and identify opportunities for upgrading. The Philippines’ paper sector is a domestically oriented industry that provides ...
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Report · January 29, 2016
This report analyses Peru’s participation in the high quality cotton textile and apparel global value chain. The textile and apparel sector is a key pillar of Peru’s manufacturing sector, while the high quality cotton has been cultivated for centuries in t ...
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Report · January 29, 2016
This report analyses Peru’s participation in the high quality cotton textile and apparel global value chain. The textile and apparel sector is a key pillar of Peru’s manufacturing sector, while the high quality cotton has been cultivated for centuries in t ...
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Report · January 29, 2016
The Duke GVC Center conducted a study, Opportunities for Upgrading in Peru, commissioned by the World Bank (2015) to support the growth and productivity agenda in Peru with a focus on three important industries for the country: table grapes, mining equipme ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Business Ethics · January 24, 2016
The burgeoning literature on global value
chains (GVCs) has recast our understanding of how
industrial clusters are shaped by their ties to the international
economy, but within this context, the role played by
corporate social responsibility (CSR) continu ...
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Report · January 11, 2016
This report analyzes the situation of Bahrain’s industry and its prospects in light of the looming TPL expiration. The Bahraini industry oriented to the U.S. market contains two distinct segments: textile manufacturers, which own spinning, weaving and fini ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
The following sections are included: Firm Overview History of the Firm Situation within Construction Machinery Industry Remanufacturing at the Firm Manufacturing Services Value Chain Global Value Chain Analysis of the Firm’s Services Value Chain Diagram of ...
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Journal ArticleBoletín Informativo Techint · December 10, 2015
En este artículo se analiza la posición de América Latina y el Caribe en las cadenas globales de valor (CGV), con énfasis en el impacto de China sobre la competitividad de la región. Mientras que Brasil, los países andinos y otras economías de América del ...
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Journal Article · December 10, 2015
En este artículo se analiza la posición de América Latina y el Caribe en las cadenas globales de valor (CGV), con énfasis en el impacto de China sobre la competitividad de la región. Mientras que Brasil, los países andinos y otras economías de América del ...
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Report · November 27, 2015
In recent decades, profound changes in the structure of the global economy have reshaped global production and trade and have altered the organization of industries and national economies into global value chains (GVCs). As GVCs became global in scope, mo ...
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Journal ArticleCambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society · November 1, 2015
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been a mixed blessing for economic development. While exports to the US economy have increased, dependency may hinder economic growth if countries do not diversify or upgrade before temporary provisions ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Banking and Financial Economics · August 17, 2015
Risk is inherent to the pursuit of opportunity. This paper surveys the recent literature and looks at the risks and opportunities firms and their workers face in the global value chains. First, it examines the risk-sharing mechanisms that firms provide fro ...
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Journal ArticleCritical Perspectives on International Business · July 6, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the global value chain (GVC) approach to understand the relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the changing patterns of global trade, investment and production, and its impact on econom ...
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Journal ArticleCambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society · 2015
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been a mixed blessing for economic development. While exports to the US economy have increased, dependency may hinder economic growth if countries do not diversify or upgrade before temporary provisions ...
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Scholarly Edition · January 8, 2014
This report analyzes the specific factors that affect the competitiveness of developing countries in global value chains (GVCs), and how these factors differ across four major economic sectors: agriculture, extractive industries, manufacturing and offshore ...
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Journal ArticleElectricity Journal · January 1, 2014
A wider collaboration framework among the various value chain actors may provide a technology advancement pathway. However, for this collaboration to occur, lead coal companies need to expand their business model beyond coal mining into the downstream coal ...
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Journal ArticleReview of International Political Economy · January 1, 2014
Contemporary globalization has been marked by significant shifts in the organization and governance of global industries. In the 1970s and 1980s, one such shift was characterized by the emergence of buyer-driven and producer-driven commodity chains. In the ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2012
The rise of private food standards has brought forth an ongoing debate about whether they work as a barrier for smallholders and hinder poverty reduction in developing countries. This paper uses a global value chain approach to explain the relationship bet ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Supply Chain Management · July 1, 2012
The global value chain (GVC) concept has gained popularity as a way to analyze the international expansion and geographical fragmentation of contemporary supply chains and value creation and capture therein. It has been used broadly in academic publication ...
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Scholarly Edition · 2012
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A key challenge to promoting decent work in global production networks is how to improve the position of both firms and workers integrated into value chains in which lead firms play a dominant role. Analysis of global production networks and value ...
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Report · 2012
This paper uses the global value chain methodology to analyze Inter-American Development Bank Multilateral Investment Fund (IDB-MIF) initiatives in Latin America that aim to include high-value agriculture small producers in the national, regional and globa ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Labour Review · December 1, 2011
A key challenge in promoting decent work worldwide is how to improve the position of both firms and workers in value chains and global production networks driven by lead firms. This article develops a framework for analysing the linkages between the econom ...
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Journal ArticleWork and Occupations · May 1, 2011
The industrialization of developing countries has fundamentally transformed work, employment, and labor for millions. Despite the industrialization of most of the developing world, we present evidence that Latin America has experienced stagnating industria ...
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Report · 2011
This report shows the shift of fruit and vegetable preparation from rural households to the urban kitchen, and highlights the new skills and global standards required of workers and suppliers in developing countries to meet the needs of global supermarkets ...
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Report · 2011
Developing countries around the world are competing to become the next Bangalore, but they need to take various steps to ensure their human capital can meet the exacting demands and professional certifications required by developed world clients. This repo ...
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Report · 2011
Global tourists are traveling further, faster and more frequently than ever before. This report indicates how developing countries can prepare their tourism workforce to provide the high levels of customer service expected by today’s sophisticated traveler ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development · January 1, 2011
This article uses the global value chain approach to analyse the upgrading trajectories of leading apparel exporters adapting to the end of textile and apparel quotas and the economic recession. These events have been coupled by the consolidation and recon ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development · January 1, 2011
This article analyses the offshore services industry using the global value chain approach. This industry has grown at a rapid pace over the last decade, driven principally by the search of businesses to reduce costs by unbundling and offshoring corporate ...
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Journal Article · October 29, 2010
There is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability. Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manne ...
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Journal ArticleBusiness and Politics · October 28, 2010
Corporate codes of conduct, product certifications, process standards, and other voluntary, non-governmental forms of private governance have proliferated in the last two decades. These innovations are a response to social pressures unleashed by globalizat ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Migration Review · June 1, 2010
While the United States welcomes foreign-born students and trainees and, less warmly, temporary workers such as H-1B visa holders, it places an array of requirements, obstacles, and delays upon persons who would like to make the U.S. their permanent home. ...
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Book · 2010
The world is in the midst of a sporadic and painful recovery from the most severe economic crisis since the 1930s Great Depression. The unprecedented scale of the crisis and the speed of its transmission have ...
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Report · 2010
Este manual tiene por objeto informar a los equipos de investigación en América Latina acerca de una metodología que permite analizar casos de Desarrollo Económico Local (DEL). En este instructivo se ha incluido el marco tradicional de los estudios DEL y, ...
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Report · 2010
Despite the 2008-2009 economic crisis, countries across Latin America continue to grow rapidly, driven by commodity booms and the growth of mining, petroleum and forestry sectors. Combined with the need for massive scale infrastructure development across t ...
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Journal ArticleEcology and Society · January 1, 2010
There is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability. Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manne ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual Review of Sociology · December 1, 2009
Wal-Mart has been both praised and pilloried as a template for twenty-first century capitalism. Therein lies the challenge in analyzing the world's largest retailer. We examine the sociological impact of Wal-Mart in terms of four themes: its business model ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Sociological Review · February 1, 2009
China and Mexico have both pursued export-oriented development strategies in the global economy, but with different implications for national development and industrial upgrading. While Mexico has been the paradigm for the neoliberal ('Washington consensus ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development · January 1, 2009
This paper deals with the North American automotive value chain and analyses the prospects for Canadian automotive sector upgrading. The size and importance of the automotive industry in Canada’s Ontario Province is a legacy of its historic ties to the ‘Bi ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development · January 2009
This paper lays out the main features of the global automotive industry
and identifies several important trends. A boom in developing country
sales and production has not yet overshadowed the importance of existing
markets in developed regions. Regional ...
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Journal ArticleIkonomicheski Izsledvania · December 1, 2008
How should we study and how should we explain industrial and firm upgrading in the host economy? This article builds on these questions by focusing on the textile and apparel industry and firms in Turkey and Bulgaria between 1991 and 2005, and it relies on ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Engineering Education · January 1, 2008
This article challenges the commonly cited statistics for engineering graduates in the United States, China, and India. Our research shows that the gap between the number of engineers and related technology specialists produced in the United States versus ...
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OtherWritten testimony for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing on �China�s Impact on the North Carolina Economy: Winners and Losers.� Kenan Conference Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · September 2007Cite
Journal ArticleTempo Social · June 2007
The global economy is changing rapidly, and China, India, and Mexico represent particularly interesting cases because of their divergent development models. Global consolidation is increasing in the past decade because of the rapid growth of China in manuf ...
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Journal ArticleIssues in Science and Technology · January 1, 2007
The United States political leaders prescribe remedies such as increasing US engineering graduation rates to match the self-proclaimed rates of emerging competition from India and China. The United States graduates roughly 70,000 undergraduate engineers an ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironment and Planning A · December 1, 2006
By using the main insights of the global value chains perspective and some of its critiques, we attempt to explain how Turkey has developed and sustained its export success as a full-package supplier of apparel during the 1990s and early 2000s. Towards thi ...
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Journal ArticleReview of International Political Economy · February 1, 2005
This article builds a theoretical framework to help explain governance patterns in global value chains. It draws on three streams of literature - transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning - to id ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Networks · April 2003
AbstractIn this article we examine the developmental consequences of globalization at multiple scales, using a commodity chains framework to investigate the case of the North American apparel industry. In the first section ...
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Chapter · December 10, 2002
The apparel industry is one of the oldest and largest export industries in the world, with global trade and production networks that connect firms and workers in countries at all levels of economic development. This chapter examines the impact of the North ...
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Chapter · December 10, 2002
The apparel industry is one of the oldest and largest export industries in the world, with global trade and production networks that connect firms and workers in countries at all levels of economic development. This chapter examines the impact of the North ...
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Chapter · December 10, 2002
The economic and social consequences of international trade agreements have become a major area of inquiry in development studies in recent years. As evidenced by the energetic protests surrounding the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ...
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Chapter · December 10, 2002
The economic and social consequences of international trade agreements have become a major area of inquiry in development studies in recent years. As evidenced by the energetic protests surrounding the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ...
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Chapter · December 10, 2002
The various contributions to this book have documented how NAFTA-inspired firm strategies are changing the geography of apparel production in North America. The authors show in myriad ways how companies at different positions along the apparel commodity ch ...
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Chapter · December 10, 2002
The various contributions to this book have documented how NAFTA-inspired firm strategies are changing the geography of apparel production in North America. The authors show in myriad ways how companies at different positions along the apparel commodity ch ...
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Book · August 1, 2002
This volume addresses many of the complex issues raised by North American integration through the lens of one of the largest and most global industries in the region: textiles and apparel. ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · January 1, 2001
Using a case study of the export-oriented blue jeans industry in Torreon, Mexico, the authors discuss the role of US buyers in promoting full-package apparel production. While the networks associated with this model yield better development outcomes for fi ...
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Journal ArticleIDS Bulletin · January 1, 2001
The Internet is still in the early stages of its development, but its impact on global value chains is already evident. While it may be premature to try to identify lasting changes on producer-driven and buyer-driven chains, several possible scenarios are ...
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Journal ArticleForeign Policy · January 1, 2001
A new global activism is shaming the world's top companies into enacting codes of conduct and opening their Third World factories for inspection. But beforejou run a victory lap injour new sweatshop-free sneakers, ask yourself: Do these voluntary arrangeme ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Economics · June 1, 1999
This article uses a global commodity chains perspective to analyze the social and organizational dimensions of international trade networks. In linking international trade and industrial upgrading, this article specifies: the mechanisms by which organizati ...
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Journal ArticleRevue d'économie industrielle · 1995
[eng] The East Asian nations have been labeled "miracle economies" because of their unparalleled record of rapid economic growth and social equity over the past several decades. There has been considerable disagreement, however, over the explanation for th ...
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Historically, services were considered non-tradable and offshoring was
confined to the manufacturing sector. However, the evolution and diffusion of
information and communication technologies has increased the availability of
offshore services in the gl ...
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Resumen El artículo usa el análisis de las cadenas globales de productos básicos (Global Commodity Chains) para explicar los cambios en la producción, estrategias comerciales y corporativas que transformaron la industria mundial del vestido en las últimas ...
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Report
This report was commissioned by OECD as a background paper for the annual OECD publication, “Perspectives of Development” 2013. This report examines the role of workforce development using the GVC methodology in four industries: apparel, fruit and vegetab ...
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