The Global Apparel Value Chain: What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries?

By Gary Gereffi, Olga Memedović. 2003

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Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management Under Oligopolistic Competition and Brand Differentiation (2012, unknown): “According to Gereffi and Memedovic (2003), the top exporters of apparel in 2000, with a value of over $1 billion in US dollars, were: China, Hong Kong (now referred to as Hong Kong SAR), the United States, Mexico, and Turkey, whereas in 1980, the major exporters were: Hong Kong SAR, South Korea,…”
Asian firms and the restructuring of global value chains (2014, background): “…and dispersed garment manufacturers undertaking production for a variety of global brands, discount retailers and supermarket chains is well documented (see, for example, Bair & Gereffi, 2003; Gereffi & Memedovic, 2003; Gereffi, 1999; Nadvi & Thoburn, 2004; Palpacuer, Gibbon, & Thomsen, 2005).”
Global Value Chains and Development (2018, background): “according to Gereffi and memedovic (2003), the apparel industry is an ideal industry for examining the dynamics of buyer-driven value chains. there is an unparalleled diversity of garment exporters in developing countries, which have extensive backward and forward linkages and help account for the…”
Logistics and Time as a Trade Barrier (2006, background): “10 See for instance Harrigan and Venables (2004) for a theory predicting such an outcome.”
Globalization, the structure of the world economy and economic development (2011, background): “…the lower tier of the IDL link up with those at upper tiers of the IDL in order to ‘‘upgrade” their role in the chain at the firm level, and the IDL at the level of the national economy (Bair, 2005; Gereffi and Korzeniewicz, 1994; Gereffi et al., 2001; Gereffi and Memedovic, 2003; Memedovic, 2004).”
Missing links: Logistics, governance and upgrading in a shifting global economy (2014, background): “The challenge of economic upgrading in apparel GPNs has been the focus of many academic studies to date (for example, Abernathy et al., 1999; Danskin et al., 2005; Gereffi, 1999; Gereffi and Memedovic, 2003; Schrank, 2004).”
Ready-to-Wear Development? Foreign Investment, Technology Transfer, and Learning by Watching in the Apparel Trade (2004, background): “…Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (e.g., Gereffi 2000, 2002; Gereffi & Martínez 1999; Gereffi & Memedovic 2003) but has also inspired collaborative research endeavors sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, the…”
The impact of the global factory on economic development (2009, background): “…chains have on (the difficulties) of emerging economies, principally by investigating the prospects of upgrading the parts of the value chain that benefit poorer economies (Barnes, Kaplinsky, & Morris, 2004; Gereffi, 1999; Gereffi & Memedovic, 2003; Kaplinsky, Memedovic, Morris, & Readman, 2003).”
The governance of global value chains (2005, methodology): “…the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, global apparel production is likely to become far more concentrated among the most capable firms in a handful of low-cost production sites, including China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Turkey (Gereffi and Memodovic, 2003: 12).”
Giant Transnational Contractors in East Asia: Emergent Trends in Global Supply Chains (2008, background): “…manufacturers play the central roles in coordinating production networks (including their backward and forward linkages). . .characteristic of capital- and technology-intensive industries such as automobiles, aircraft, computers, semiconductors, and heavy machinery’ (Gereffi & Memedovic, 2003: 3).”
Is There a Case for Industrial Policy? A Critical Survey (2006, unknown): “Why would industries whose profitability is so intimately intertwined not find ways to help coordinate decisions, as is the case in the many international supply networks (Sturgeon and Lester 2002, 2003; Gereffi and Memedovic 2003)?”
Studying the potential release of carbon nanotubes throughout the application life cycle (2008, background): “3.3.1.1. Production. The textile industry exhibits very complicated supply chains, which are highly globalised and fragmented among apparel manufacturers and their subcontractors [ 93 ].”
Global Production Networking and Technological Change in East Asia (2004, background): “For an application of the global production network—that is, the setting-up of decentralized worldwide production networks by firms that are either lead buyers or lead producers—to the apparel industry, see Gereffi and Memedovic (2003).”
Power relationships along the value chain: multinational firms, global buyers and performance of local suppliers (2008, background): “In each case, the level of detail at which the 1 Altenburg, 2006; Gereffi et al., 2005; Gereffi and Memodovic, 2003; Giuliani et al., 2005; Humphrey and Schmitz, 2002A, 2002B; Kaplinsky, 2000; Pietrobelli and Rabellotti, 2007; Schmitz and Knorringa, 1999. parameters are specified can vary.”