Shifting Governance Structures in Global Commodity Chains, With Special Reference to the Internet

By Gary Gereffi. 2001

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Strategy and Management

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Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward (2005, background): “…over other chain participants and their presumed importance as potential agents of upgrading and development: ‘One of the major hypotheses of the global commodity chain approach is that development requires linking up with the most significant lead firms in the industry’ (Gereffi 2001a: 1622).”
Alignment between Quality Enforcement Devices and Governance Structures in the Agro-food Vertical Chains (2005, background): “, 2001) and similar in spirit to the one used by supply chain management scholars like Gereffi (2001) (see also Gereffi et al.”
Globalizing retail: conceptualizing the distribution-based transnational corporation (TNC) (2005, background): “Such companies are seen as exerting substantial control over how, when and where production takes place, and how much profit accrues at each stage of the chain (Gereffi, 2001a).”
A Review of Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practices in Canada (2012, background): “Governance Rasheed and Geiger (2001), Gereffi (2001), Konefal et al. (2005), Ghosh and Fedorowicz (2008), Vurro et al. (2009), Vermeulen (2010), Alvarez et al. (2010), Pullman and Dillard (2010), Martinelli and Midttun (2010), Blowfield and Dolan (2010), Awaysheh and Klassen (2010), Huang (2010),…”
Global Commodity Chains and the Marxian Law of Value (2010, background): “…(machinery), intangible (brands) or intermediate (marketing skills), provide the foundation for the emergence of barriers to entry and thereby give rise to those different sorts of extraordinary economic rents: technological, organisational, brand-name, relational and so on (Gereffi 2001:1621).”
Recasting Our Understanding of Gender and Work During Global Restructuring (2003, background): “Examples range from data entry in Trinidad and Barbados, to Caribbean apparel (Yelvington, 1995; Gereffi, 1999, 2001; Freeman, 2000), to programming and sales telework in Asia (Hoon et al., 1999; Mitter, 1999; Hafkin and Taggart, 2001; Kelkar, 2002).”
Digital Control in Value Chains: Challenges of Connectivity for East African Firms (2018, background): “For example, Gereffi (2001), in his exploration of the effect of the Internet on GVCs, tracks the rise of retail-facing intermediaries and services, and their potential to become influential lead firms in orienting value chains.”
E-Commerce and Industrial Upgrading in the Chinese Apparel Value Chain (2018, background): “The internet-based economy in China is quite different from traditional “buyer-driven” and “producer-driven” chains (Gereffi 2001a, 2001b).”
Foreign direct investment and local linkages (2004, background): “Given the rapid changes in technology and increasing globalisation, it is difficult to characterise the nature of a production organisation in the high-tech industry as either a buyer-driven commodity chain or a producerdriven commodity chain (Gereffi, 2001).”
The global economy: Organization, governance, and development (2010, background): “A variety of new “private governance” responses or certification institutions are emerging (Gereffi, Garcia-Johnson, and Sasser 2001), such as individual corporate codes of conduct; sectoral certification schemes involving nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), firms, labor, and other industry…”
Upgrading, uneven development, and jobs in the North American apparel industry (2003, background): “Among the key issues that have been posed about the relationship between globalization and development is that of scale: At what level of analysis should we focus our efforts to understand contemporary processes of development, and at what level should policy interventions be directed?”