Global Production Networks and the Extractive Sector: Governing Resource-Based Development

By G. Bridge. 2008

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This article explores the opportunities a GPN approach provides for understanding the network configurations and regional development impacts associated with extractive industries. The article elaborates two core claims: (i) that the application of the GPN analytical framework provides a way to make progress in a stalled policy debate regarding the linkages between resource extraction and socio-economic development (popularly known as the resource curse thesis ); and (ii) that the encounter between GPN and a natural resource-based sector introduces distinctive issues associated with the materiality and territoriality of extractive commodities that, to date, GPN has not considered fully. The article examines the global production network for oil as an empirical case of how extractive industries can provide (limited) opportunities for socio-economic development.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Development, Economics and Econometrics

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The political economy of technological capabilities and global production networks in South Africa’s wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) industries (2017, unknown): “…of the political economy of technological development and allow us to consider dimensions such as the distribution of power within those networks (Bridge, 2008); the signi ﬁ cance of skills development (Lall, 1993); the role of trade and the deepening international division of labour across…”
The battery business: Lithium availability and the growth of the global electric car industry (2017, background): “For these reasons, the political tensions involved with internationalizing the country’s lithium sector highlight ‘the difficulty of realizing the potential of resources for broadly based development’ (Bridge, 2008: 1236) in Bolivia.”
Performance of domestic and cross-border acquisitions: empirical evidence from Russian acquirers (2012, background): “Rent capture and allocation is highly influenced by governments since the state is the primary resource-holder and establishes the terms by which firms may have access to the resource (Bridge, 2008).”
Global land governance: from territory to flow? (2013, unknown): “shale based hydrocarbons) [13–15].”
Making a Global Gas Market: Territoriality and Production Networks in Liquefied Natural Gas (2017, background): “Building on calls to better understand the “influence materiality exerts on industrial organization” (Bridge 2008, 415; see also Boyd, Prudham, and Schurman 2001; Prudham 2005; Hudson 2008), this work explores the significance of materials, and biological, chemical, and mechanical processes, within…”
Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and Political Ecology (2017, background): “Development paths based on the production, extraction and export of raw materials and natural products—including agricultural and forestall ones—with the goal of reducing poverty and social inequality by means of enhanced export revenues and their distribution, have been analysed and criticised unde”
Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks (2013, unknown): “Bridge (2008) extends GPNs to look at resource industries, suggesting a confrontation with natural environments at ‘beginning’ and ‘end’ points, as reserves and sinks.”