Chain governance and upgrading: taking stock

By J. Humphrey, H. Schmitz. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Governance, Entry Barriers, Upgrading: A Re-Interpretation of Some GVC Concepts from the Experience of African Clothing Exports (2008, background): “Later, this argument came to form part of a more general theory seeking to link possibilities of upgrading to variations in the way that GVCs are governed (Humphrey & Schmitz 2003).”
Exogenous sources of regional industrial change (2018, background): “Upgrading of firms depends on the specific global value chains that firms are part of and their role in these (Humphrey and Schmitz, 2004).”
Towards a typology of repositioning strategies of GVC/GPN suppliers: the case of functional upgrading and downgrading (2016, methodology): “A key argument of this approach is that a sizeable part of the world’s production is, under the paradigm of vertical disintegration, organized by large enterprises that command networks of suppliers at different tiers providing various intermediate goods, and that these networks are governed by diff”
The Blue Revolution in Asia: Upgrading and Governance in Aquaculture Value Chains (2014, unknown): “The forms of coordination are generally those developed by Gereffi, Humphrey & Sturgeon (2005), also building on previous work (Humphrey & Schmitz, 2004; Schmitz, 2006).”
Linkages and spillovers in global production networks: firm-level analysis of the Czech automotive industry (2016, background): “The contemporary automotive industry represents a typical example of quasihierarchical (captive) value chains in which powerful lead firms organize and regulate vertical production networks of component suppliers (Humphrey and Schmitz, 2004; Gereffi et al., 2005).”
Global value chains: from governance to governmentality? (2008, background): “Yet, while Gereffi, Humphrey and Sturgeon (2005) differentiate types of transactions in terms of information content and their parties’ technological resources, for the programme of government the important factors are volume, unit cost, risk and profit impact.”