Local Clusters in Global Chains: The Causes and Consequences of Export Dynamism in Torreon's Blue Jeans Industry

By Jennifer Bair, Gary Gereffi. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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Upgrading in Clusters and Value Chains in Latin America: The Role of Policies (2004, background): “Mexico has experienced a downgrading in the office furniture market (a slight decrease in market share combined with a sharp decrease in export unit value relative to competitors).”
‘Globalizing’ regional development: a global production networks perspective (2004, background): “Only recently has there been a recognition in the GCC literature of the sub-national level as a relevant scale for issues of upgrading and development (Bair and Gereffi, 2001).”
Outsourcing governance: states and the politics of a ‘global value chain world’ (2017, background): “An intentional consequence of these rules is that they facilitate the establishment of value chains within North America (Mayer 1998, Bair and Gereffi 2001).”
Environmental Management, Climate Change, CSR, and Governance in Clusters of Small Firms in Developing Countries (2015, background): “In a similar vein, Blackman and Kildegaard (2010) conducted a study among 145 small and medium companies at the leather tanning cluster in León, Mexico, to identify the determining factors for adopting cleaner technologies in the production process.”
Evolutionary agglomeration theory: increasing returns, diminishing returns, and the industry life cycle (2011, background): “which can resemble the connectivity found within a biological neural network), a global supply chain, and network economies that are no longer reliant upon the original agglomeration (Bair and Gereffi, 2001; Henderson et al., 2002; Johansson and Quigley, 2004).”
Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Lessons from Latin American Clusters (2005, background): “La subcontratación como proceso de aprendizaje: el caso de la electronica en Jalisco (México) en la década de los noventa.”
The Place of Disarticulations: Global Commodity Production in La Laguna, Mexico (2011, background): “When it began over a decade ago, what most impressed observers about La Laguna's blue jeans boom was the apparent rapidity with which the region emerged as a major center of export-oriented manufacturing (Bair and Gereffi, 2001; Van Dooren and Zarate, 2003).”
Joining, Upgrading and Being Competitive in Global Value Chains: A Strategic Framework (2013, background): “Note: Tasks performed by Mexican apparel industries in the city of Torreon Source: Bair and Gereffi, 2001 Moving up the value chain is often about “creating the knowledge behind the product”.”
Competitive Advantages of the Latecomer Firm: A Resource-Based Account of Industrial Catch-Up Strategies (2002, background): “Typical small-scale latecomer firms in Taiwan (Chen, 1999) or Thailand (Campbell, 1997) have been able to upgrade their production and innovation capabilities through such linkages—as have firms in Czechoslovakia (Deardorff and Djankov, 2000) and Mexico (Bair and Gereffi, 2001), thus revealing how e”
Vietnam in the global garment and textile value chain: impacts on firms and workers (2004, background): “Value chain analysis has been widely used in investigating global production and trade in garments (Gereffi, 1999; Bair and Gereffi, 2001).”
International HRM: national business systems, organizational politics and the international division of labour in MNCs (2005, background): “Humphrey (2000), Gereffi (1999), Bair and Gereffi (2001). Schmitz and Knorringa (2000) for a range of other sectors).”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains and Industrial Clusters: Why Governance Matters (2014, background): “Notwithstanding an ongoing dialog between the GVC and cluster literatures (Bair and Gereffi 2001; Chiarvesio et al. 2010; Humphrey and Schmitz 2002; Schmitz 2004),”