Global Value Chains and Development

By Gary Gereffi. 2018

326 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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 most influential approach used to analyze globalization and its impacts. It studies the conceptual foundations of GVC analysis, the twin pillars of 'governance' and 'upgrading', along with detailed case studies of China, Mexico and other emerging economies as main beneficiaries of export-oriented industrialization, and addresses potential solutions to the deleterious impact of globalization on workers and communities.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Roberta Rabellotti
2. Torben Pedersen
3. Gary Gereffi
4. Pavida Pananond
5. David J. Teece
6. Olga Petricevic
7. M. Sanfilippo
8. Vito Amendolagine

In Strategy and Management

1. Torben Pedersen
2. Olga Petricevic
3. Pavida Pananond
4. Gary Gereffi
5. Roberta Rabellotti
6. David J. Teece
7. M. Sanfilippo
8. Vito Amendolagine

Citations in the corpus

• Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange: Implications for sustainability in the 21st century (2021, background): “Moreover, high-income nations obtain significantly higher revenues for the resources they export than poorer nations, which is mostly due to the positions occupied in global supply chains and their respective roles in the world economy (Piñero et al., 2019; Prell et al., 2014; UNCTAD, 2013).”
• Global value chains and international development policy: Bringing firms, networks and policy-engaged scholarship back in (2019, methodology): “The World Bank, regional development banks (like the Inter-American Development Bank), the ILO, the Investment and Enterprise Division of UNCTAD, and UNIDO are generally in this camp.27 These diverse interpretations of the GVC framework are an inherent feature of many relational and multi-level mode”
• An integrative typology of global strategy and global value chains: The management and organization of cross‐border activities (2020, background): “The global commodity chain (GCC) literature introduced the concept of “governance structures” in global industries, and distinguished between “producer-driven” and “buyer-driven” chains (Gereffi & Korzeniewicz, 1994; Gereffi, 2018, Chapters 1–3).”
• Local sourcing in developing countries: The role of foreign direct investments and global value chains (2019, result): “Our results show a high degree of complementarity between GVCs and FDI (UNCTAD, 2013; Farole and Winkler, 2014; Taglioni and Winkler, 2016), and suggest that policies to support entry to 17 In our sample, about 90 percent of foreign investors based in Vietnam are exporters (in the case of SSA, this…”
• The structural reshaping of globalization: Implications for strategic sectors, profiting from innovation, and the multinational enterprise (2019, background): “Thus, careful attention should be given to global value chain governance (Gereffi, 2018; Gereffi, Humphrey, & Sturgeon, 2005), and to segmenting geographically the activities included in parallel, supposed ‘global’ information transfer systems and ‘global’ innovation networks (GINs), thereby…”