Which Way is "Up" in Upgrading? Trajectories of Change in the Value Chain for South African Wine

By S. Ponte, J. Ewert. 2009

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Subfields: Plant Science, Strategy and Management, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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The dark side of regional industrial path development: towards a typology of trajectories of decline (2019, background): “…‘respecialisation strategy’, more precisely respecialisation in low-cost production (see, for instance, the case of South African wine producers, Ponte and Ewert, 2009) and – related to this – reorientation towards serving less demanding markets (i.e. downgrading in terms of market segments).”
The evolution of power in the global coffee value chain and production network (2019, background): “But an increasing number of studies have found that despite producers’ best efforts, upgrading often fails to lead to improved value capture and regional development (Ponte and Ewert, 2009; Selwyn, 2012; Werner, 2012; Tokatli, 2013; Smith et al., 2014; Selwyn, 2015).”
An integrative typology of global strategy and global value chains: The management and organization of cross‐border activities (2020, background): “…on the premise that GVC participation may not always bring equal prosperity and value to all stakeholders (see, among others, Kaplinsky, 2000; Ponte & Ewert, 2009; Werner & Bair, 2019), this theme examines strategies and factors that can redress such imbalances in order to make GVC…”
The Blue Revolution in Asia: Upgrading and Governance in Aquaculture Value Chains (2014, neutral): “…set of upgrading (and downgrading) trajectories (Gibbon, 2001; Giuliani, Pietrobelli & Rabellotti, 2005; Schmitz, 2006; Gibbon & Ponte, 2005; Ponte & Ewert, 2009; Mitchell & Coles, 2011; Cattaneo; Gereffi & Staritz, 2013). in this article is based on two points of departure: (1) analyses of…”
Global Value Chains Meet Innovation Systems : Are There Learning Opportunities for Developing Countries? (2010, background): “The case of the wine industry in South Africa, reported in Ponte and Ewert (2009) is an example.”
Towards a typology of repositioning strategies of GVC/GPN suppliers: the case of functional upgrading and downgrading (2016, background): “Moreover, it was argued that the existing dissonance in the literature over the possibilities for and rewards from functional upgrading (see Humphrey and Schmitz, 2004; Ponte and Ewert, 2009; Tokatli, 2013) can be attributed firstly to more variegated and versatile modes of governance existing even ”
International entrepreneurship: The pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities across national borders (2018, background): “…& Buchholtz, 2009) to recognize that entrants can disrupt ecosystems (Ansari, Garud, & Kumaraswamy, 2016), and to take into account the possibility that the position of an opportunity seeker in an ecosystem can become upgraded or downgraded over time (e.g., Gereffi, 1999; Ponte & Ewert, 2009).”
Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks (2013, neutral): “In practice, this often means analysing unit prices at nodes in the chain to see if upskilling or upgrading processing might enhance value there (e.g. Ponte & Ewert 2009).”
Global Value Chains, National Innovation Systems and Economic Development (2018, background): “…downside for the national economy might be that an enterprise joining a GVC, although advanced by local standards, decouples from interacting with domestic firms and thus undermines the potential for building dynamic national or regional clusters (Schmitz 1995 and 1999, Ponte and Ewert 2009).”
Do Global Value Chains Offer Developing Countries Learning and Innovation Opportunities? (2017, background): “…Seafood Vietnam Quantitative LI Tencati et al (2008) Vegetables Guatemala Qualitative LI Padilla-Perez (2014) Wine South-Africa Qualitative LI Ponte and Ewert (2009) Wood Gabon Qualitative LI Kaplinsky et al (2011) Wood Thailand Qualitative LI Kaplinsky et al (2011) Services Film…”
Sustainability governance of chains and networks: a review and future outlook (2015, background): “Examples of these diversified strategies (not all related to environment) have been seen in the wine (Ponte and Ewert, 2009), aquaculture (Khiem et al.”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks: A New Paradigm for a Changing World (2011, background): “…costs of grape growing, and reduced emphasis on premium brands – have enabled firms to maintain stable market shares and margins for mid-range or basic wines, especially during the economic crisis when cost cutting was necessary for survival in some segments of the industry (Ponte and Ewert, 2009).”