Local Enterprises in the Global Economy

By H. Schmitz. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations

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Global standards, global governance and the organization of global value chains (2008, background): “Understanding the power of global lead firms to organize and structure value chains has been one of the core elements of the GVC approach (Gereffi, 1999; Humphrey and Schmitz, 2004; Gereffi et al., 2005; Gibbon and Ponte, 2005; Altenburg, 2006).”
Innovation capability building and learning mechanisms in latecomer firms: recent empirical contributions and implications for research (2012, methodology): “Drawing on the frameworks developed in Schmitz (1995, 2004) and Bell and Albu (1999), Kishimoto (2004) examined the upgrading trajectory of the personal computer (PC) cluster in Taiwan.”
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks (2020, background): “…Yeung, 2009a, 2015) and development studies (Giuliani et al., 2005; Humphrey & Schmitz, 2002; Parrilli et al., 2013; Pietrobelli & Rabellotti, 2011; Schmitz, 2004) are concerned with how regional actors and assets can be strategically coupled with the competitive dynamics of GPN in order for…”
Enhancing the Role of SMEs in Global Value Chains (2005, methodology): “For the purpose of this document, „focal firms‟ are defined as those enterprises (major players) that consistently operate value adding processes on both sides of the focal point, i.e. both in production and in marketing/distribution. The term focal firm is inspired by the taxonomy of supplier netwo”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains and Industrial Clusters: Why Governance Matters (2014, background): “Notwithstanding an ongoing dialog between the GVC and cluster literatures (Bair and Gereffi 2001; Chiarvesio et al. 2010; Humphrey and Schmitz 2002; Schmitz 2004), there is still a gap in understanding how GVCs and industrial clusters interact in terms of economic and social upgrading in developing…”
The Politics of Institutional Renovation and Economic Upgrading: Recombining the Vines That Bind in Argentina (2007, background): “Grounded in evolutionary and relational views of the firm, the research on economic upgrading in the developing world suggests that the incremental creation of new capabilities occurs through firms’ accessing certain supply-side, collective resources (such as training, R&D, and databases of best pra”
Donor approaches to supporting pro-poor value chains (2007, unknown): “44 Schmitz/ Knorringa (2000); Schmitz (2004).”
Innovation and international business (2017, background): “In particular, knowledge flows to facilitate upgrading of the functions of supplier firms towards, for instance, design, marketing and R&D functions involved in deeper innovation activities often seem limited, so contributing little to firms’ improvement of their positions in GVCs (Schmitz 2004; Giu”
Global Value Chains and Technological Capabilities: A Framework to Study Learning and Innovation in Developing Countries (2008, background): “Although some recent contributions advocate that upgrading needs investments and efforts at the firm level (Kishimoto, 2004; Schmitz and Knorringa, 2000; Schmitz, 2004), most of the empirical analyses lack a systematic attempt to investigate learning and innovation at the firm and cluster level.”
Industrial Clusters and Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries: What We Know, What We do not Know, and What We Need to Know (2016, unknown): “In the 1990s, many articles and policy papers promoted local economic growth through cluster development (Schmitz and Nadvi, 1999), often by highlighting the benefits for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) located in industrial districts in developing countries (Nadvi, 1999a; Schmitz, 2004).”
Labour in Global Value Chains: Work Conditions in Football Manufacturing in China, India and Pakistan (2012, background): “…upgrading strategies — that is, producing better products more efficiently, by moving into higher valueadded activities such as design and branding of products, or by employing skills gained in one industry to become competitive in a related industry (Humphrey and Schmitz, 2002; Schmitz, 2004).”
Global Private Regulation and Value-Chain Restructuring in Indonesian Smallholder Coffee Systems (2008, background): “Humphrey and Schmitz (2004) define ‘‘governance’’ as the process of specifying, communicating, and enforcing compliance with key product and process parameters along the value chain.”
Evolution and relocation in fashion-led Italian districts: evidence from two case-studies (2006, background): “…to reduce the level of ‘clusterization’ because many simple, labour-intensive tasks are subcontracted through several international subcontracting chains in low labour cost countries (Schmitz 2004) or through a new process of district internalization based on ‘small multinationals’ (district FDI).”