Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward

By Jennifer Bair. 2005

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Global Private Regulation and Value-Chain Restructuring in Indonesian Smallholder Coffee Systems (2008, neutral): “…of terminologies such as ‘‘global commodity chain,’’ ‘‘global value chain,’’ ‘‘filieres,’’ and ‘‘supply chain’’ (refer e.g., to Raikes, Jensen, & Ponte (2000) or Bair (2005) for further discussion), for the purposes of this paper, I use the term ‘‘global value chain’’ to refer to a…”
Global value chains, rising power firms and economic and social upgrading (2015, background): “(2011) on SouthAfrica’s links to Lesotho and Swaziland and Bair and Gereffi (2014) on how East Asian production networks in”
Governing global value chains: an introduction (2008, background): “…of GVC governance Although the definition of GVC governance just elaborated provides the basis for most discussions of chain governance in the literature, there are important differences in the way governance has been understood and theorized across the different camps of GVC research (Bair, 2005).”
Gender and aquaculture value chains: A review of key issues and implications for research (2017, background): “In addition the importance of understanding the cultural and institutional environment in relation to governance has been highlighted (Bair, 2005) also for aquaculture value chains (Jespersen et al., 2014).”
Global standards, global governance and the organization of global value chains (2008, background): “See Bair (2005), Hess and Yeung (2006), Coe and Hess (2007) and Coe et al. (2008) for a review of these distinctions.”
Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks (2013, neutral): “In particular, the role played by powerful companies, so-called ‘lead firms’, in global economic governance is emphasised (Bair 2005, 157; Gereffi et al. 2005) and these firms are seen “as the core actors in a segmented system of global economic governance” (Gibbon et al. 2008, 316).”
The Global Apparel Value Chain, Trade and the Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries (2010, background): “” This has led to new divisions of labor and hurdles if suppliers wish to enter these chains (Bair 2005; Gereffi et al. 2001).”
Bringing the social context back in: governance and wealth distribution in global commodity chains (2008, background): “…for sourcing relations in GCCs Paradoxically, while the notion of governance has been acknowledged as central to GCC analysis (Henderson et al., 2002; Bair, 2005), the financialization of lead firms and its consequences for supplier relations have gone fairly unnoticed in this literature.”
Global commodity chains and endogenous growth: Export dynamism and development in Mexico and Honduras (2006, background): “See Gereffi and Kaplinsky (2001) and Bair (2005) for reviews and summaries of some of this literature.”
Local and Regional Development in Global Value Chains, Production Networks and Innovation Networks: A Comparative Review and the Challenges for Future Research (2013, background): “The GVC approach focuses on the firm(s) as each value chain comprises a very specific set of firms in relation to their supply of systems, components and materials, subcontracting of phases, service provision and sale of products (Bair, 2005, p. 166).”