Learning from Global Buyers

By H. Schmitz, P. Knorringa. 2000

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains and Industrial Clusters: Why Governance Matters (2014, background): “supported by their national, regional, or global buyers (Schmitz and Knorringa 2000).”
Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward (2005, background): “Existing research on the competitive dynamics of chains, such as the various types of rents generated through the process of upgrading, which serve as barriers to entry for potential competitors can inform this research agenda (Kaplinsky 2000; Schmitz and Knorringa 1999).”
Spreading the Gains from Globalization : What Can Be Learned from Value-Chain Analysis? (2004, background): “This discussion is drawn from Schmitz (1999) and Schmitz and Knorringa (1999).”
Global Value Chains and Technological Capabilities: A Framework to Study Learning and Innovation in Developing Countries (2008, background): “Most other studies, however, lack a firm-level (TC-based) focus, but provide some evidence on how chain leaders assist local producers in upgrading (Barnes & Kaplinsky, 2000; Gibbon, 2003; Kaplinsky et al., 2002; Meyer-Stamer et al., 2004; Schmitz & Knorringa, 2000).”
Local clusters in global value chains: exploring dynamic linkages between Germany and Pakistan (2005, background): “This has sparked interest amongst cluster analysts in examining ties between local clustered firms and global buyers (Schmitz and Knorringa 2000), and between local clusters and global chains (Humphrey and Schmitz 2002).”
Global Value Chains and Open Networks: The Case of Italian Industrial Districts (2010, background): “According to those studies, the development and the upgrading of global value chains may positively impact on the growth of local manufacturing firms and systems (Schmitz & Knorringa, 2000; Humphrey & Schmitz, 2002) in terms of employment, market development, and innovation processes.”
Upgrading, Changing Competitive Pressures, and Diverse Practices in the East and Central European Apparel Industry (2006, background): “Much of the existing literature on upgrading and value chains argues that the action and motivations of global buyers are the key causal forces in the organization of global contracting systems and upgrading possibilities; `lead firms' are seen as the organizational motors in value chains (Gereffi, ”