Upgrading, Changing Competitive Pressures, and Diverse Practices in the East and Central European Apparel Industry

By John Pickles, Adrian Smith, Milan Buček, P. Roukova, R. Begg. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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The state, institutional frameworks and the dynamics of capital in global production networks (2015, background): “Others have highlighted the need to recognize the diverse trajectories of firms as they are repositioned in value chains, not only those involving upgrading (Pickles et al., 2006).”
The costs of compliance? Views of Sri Lankan apparel manufacturers in times of global economic crisis (2011, background): “…organizations and retailers—concerning whether fast fashion sourcing strategies of retailers are incompatible with implementation of codes of conduct at sites of production (Hale, 2000; Hughes, 2001; Pearson and Seyfang, 2001; Knutsen, 2004; Pickles et al., 2006; Barrientos and Smith, 2007).”
The Place of Disarticulations: Global Commodity Production in La Laguna, Mexico (2011, background): “La Laguna, and other regions of garment sector dynamism, have again been central to this debate, as scholars outline the possibilities and failures of upgraded firms to maintain and expand their participation in production networks (Bair and Gereffi, 2003; Pickles et al, 2006; Schrank, 2004).”
Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism: The Emergence of Dependent Market Economies in East Central Europe (2009, unknown): “82 pickles et al. 2006. 83 in line with other comparative evaluations of the economic performance of specific varieties of capitalism such as hall and gingrich (2004) as well as kenworthy (2006), we are using data on gdp growth.”
The Global Economic Crisis, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union: Models of Development and the Contradictions of Internationalization (2010, background): “…countries became reliant upon export assembly production, a relationship that has its roots in the 1980s development of EU outward processing trade (OPT) in selected parts of ECE (Fröbel et al., 1981; Pellegrin, 2001; Begg et al., 2003; Smith, 2003; Pickles et al., 2006; Pickles and Smith, 2010).”
The Future of the Apparel and Textile Industries: Prospects and Choices for Public and Private Actors (2006, background): “Opportunities for countries in Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Turkey for taking advantage of proximity advantages into the EU require similar types of competitive strategies and adjustments (for example, Pickles et al, 2006).”
Upgrading in the automotive industry: firm-level evidence from Central Europe (2011, background): “nature in different regional and local settings (Smith et al., 2002; Henderson et al., 2002; Smith, 2003; Coe et al., 2004; Yeung, 2005; Pickles et al., 2006).”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks: Developing a Framework for Analysis. (2012, background): “In the early 1980s, some of the ECE economies began to carry out outward-processing trade (OPT) for non-Soviet markets in Western Europe, primarily with German buyers and contractors.”
Bring In, Go Up, Go West, Go Out: Upgrading, Regionalisation and Delocalisation in China’s Apparel Production Networks (2014, background): “As a result, industrial upgrading is not an unambiguous good, with these added demands being transferred to workers through increased discipline, extended hours and speeding-up of production lines, with the unfortunate consequence that technical and organisational upgrading has resulted in the downg”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks: A New Paradigm for a Changing World (2011, background): “Another example of tactical downgrading occurs in the highly competitive South African wine value chain, where some wine makers were shown to prefer a lower position on the price and quality pyramid for wines exported to the European market.”
Sustainability governance of chains and networks: a review and future outlook (2015, background): “, 2010) apparel (Pickles et al., 2006), home furnishings (De Marchi et al.”