THE GLOBAL WOOD FURNITURE VALUE CHAIN: What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries The case of South Africa

By Raphael Kaplinsky, Olga Memedović, Mike Morris, Jeffrey Readman. 2003

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Subfields: Museology, Strategy and Management

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The global competitiveness of the Chinese wooden furniture industry (2009, background): “Thus, the government, industrial association and enterprises need to quickly take innovative steps coordinately to promote Chinese enterprises transitioning from the original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to the original design manufacturers (ODM), further to the original brand manufacturers (OBM).”
Entrepreneurship in value chains of non-timber forest products (2006, unknown): “Ten products were selected for detailed study from a larger initial group (see Marshall et al., 2003 for full list) based on the criteria that the NTFP was: ! traded beyond the village of collection; ! of interest to the project’s partner NGOs (all of which were development NGOs with a…”
Value chain analysis for policy-makers and practitioners (2005, methodology): “It has also been used in other cases, including the furniture industry of South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia (Kaplinsky et al., 2003; Navas-Aleman, 2004; Ewasechko, 2004).”
China and India: What's in it for Africa? (2006, background): “Yet, for the process to gather momentum would require a substantial upgrading of South African furniture producers (Kaplinsky et al. 2003)”
Global Value Chains and Development (2018, unknown): “the study carried out by Kaplinsky et al. (2003) on the wood furniture value chain also provides a good example of a buyer-driven GVC. the authors identify three major buying agents who facilitate the entry of wood furniture producers into global markets: large multi-store retailers with outlets…”