The globalization of product markets and immiserizing growth: lessons from the South African furniture industry

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Value chains, networks and clusters: reframing the global automotive industry (2008, background): “…motor vehicles and commodities such as coffee a cacao (Gereffi, 1994; Borrus et al., 2000; Dolan and Humphrey, 2000; Sturgeon, 2002; Fold, 2002; Kaplinsky et al., 2002; Talbot, 2002; Gibbon, 2003; Gibbon and Ponte, 2005; Berger and the MIT Industrial Performance Center, 2005; Kaplinsky, 2005,…”
Agricultural Value Chains in Developing Countries A Framework for Analysis (2011, unknown): “…Schmitz, 2002b) show that although inclusion in global value chains may facilitate product and process upgrading, “…firms become tight into relationships that often prevent functional upgrading and leave them dependent on a small number of powerful customers’’ (see also Kaplinsky and Morris 2002).”
In the Market But Not of It: Fair Trade Coffee and Forest Stewardship Council Certification as Market-Based Social Change (2005, background): “This paper s comparison of the coffee and wood products sectors draws on global commodity chain (GCC) approaches (Gellert, 2003; Kaplinsky & Morris, 2002; Ponte, 2002; Raynolds, 2002; Talbot, 1997).”
Upgrading in Global Value Chains (2004, background): “The impact of global standards on furniture producers in South Africa is discussed by Kaplinsky et al. (2002).”