Book section · January 1, 2025
This chapter builds a new theoretical framework for exploring whether global recycling networks (GRNs) are economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable. In applying this theoretical framework to vignettes of global clothing recycling, e-waste re ...
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Book section · 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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Book section · September 17, 2022
Active Local Governments and New Chinese Firms in Emerging Industries in Kunshan and Dongguan ...
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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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 section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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 section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · January 1, 2012
The GVC approach offers the possibility of understanding how firms are linked in the global economy, but also acknowledges the broader institutional context of these linkages, including trade policy, regulation, and standards. More generally, the global pr ...
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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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Book section · 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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