Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

By David L. Levy. 2008

520 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Business and International Management

1. J. Grabs
2. Juliane Reinecke
3. S. Manning
4. Frank Wijen
5. Steven Si
6. Neil M. Coe
7. S. Ponte
8. Jorrit Gosens

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Neil M. Coe
2. Martin Hess
3. J. Moon
4. Dirk Matten
5. P. Dicken
6. S. Ponte
7. F. Mayer
8. J. Grabs

In Strategy and Management

1. Neil M. Coe
2. B. Selwyn
3. Martin Hess
4. S. Ponte
5. Henry S. C. Yeung
6. J. Grabs
7. J. Moon
8. S. Manning

Citations in the corpus

• Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields: Trading off Compliance and Achievement in Sustainability Standard Adoption (2014, background): “…(through low wages, pollution, etc.), because such practices may raise their (short-run) profits and are not (fully) observable to external stakeholders (King & Toffel, 2009), especially when goods are produced in remote locations and are traded internationally through multiple actors (Levy, 2008).”
• The evolution of power in the global coffee value chain and production network (2019, background): “Some have focused on the role of quality conventions and sustainability standards (Ponte and Gibbon, 2005; Nadvi, 2008; Ouma, 2010); others have leveraged governmentality (Gibbon and Ponte, 2008; Raj-Reichert, 2013; Ouma, 2015) and neo-Gramscian approaches (Levy, 2008; Bair and Palpacuer, 2015; Levy”
• The Governance of Global Value Chains: Unresolved Human Rights, Environmental and Ethical Dilemmas in the Apple Supply Chain (2015, background): “Although there have been many campaigns to improve workers’ rights and employment conditions in the plants operating within global value chains in the emerging economies, and multinational corporations have been reminded of their responsibilities and often signed up to corporate and environmental re”
• Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction (2019, background): “The social and plight perspective also pays attention to how power is exercised to reproduce the existing social order and how the empowerment of the poor can be enhanced (e.g., Levy, 2008).”
• Input and output legitimacy of multi-stakeholder initiatives (2012, background): “Indeed, world production is now depicted as a global network, in which various actors are all linked across various supply chain layers (Hassel, 2008; Henderson et al., 2002; Levy, 2008) that “entail the disaggregation and dispersion of economic activities to multiple locations” (Levy, 2008: 944).”
• National Contexts Matter: The Co-Evolution of Sustainability Standards in Global Value Chains (2012, background): “Previous research has indicated that powerful buyers in global value chains have a strong influence on the adoption of sustainability standards, and that buyers favor standards that are marketable and secure margins (e.g. Levy, 2008).”
• An Institution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Multi-National Corporations (MNCs): Form and Implications (2012, background): “It is increasingly recognized that markets and other forms of organizational activity are contested (Lounsbury, 2001; Levy, 2008a; King and Pearce, 2010).”
• Outsourcing governance: states and the politics of a ‘global value chain world’ (2017, background): “Power relations have remained conceived in predominantly economic terms, and the theorisation of power primarily centres on firms as agents (Dallas 2015) that seek to generate economic rents in GVCs (Kaplinsky 2005; Levy 2008: 945).”
• Who Governs Socially-Oriented Voluntary Sustainability Standards? Not the Producers of Certified Products (2017, background): “…diverse stakeholders to the fore of private standards setting, VSSSOs would help to close the ‘‘participatory gap” between the ‘‘transnational capitalist class” and groups typically excluded from global economic governance (Conroy, 2007, pp. 38–39; Levy, 2008, p. 852; Reinicke and Deng, 2000).”
• The Political Dynamics of Sustainable Coffee: Contested Value Regimes and the Transformation of Sustainability (2016, unknown): “This stood in sharp contrast to Fairtrade’s original intervention in the coffee value chain, which eliminated intermediaries with the intention of increasing producers’ bargaining power and farmer incomes (Levy, 2008).”
• The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World – A Review of a New Perspective on CSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy (2011, unknown): “Second, the legitimacy of self-regulation is being studied critically (Banerjee 2007; Levy and Egan 2003; Levy 2008; Orts 1995) and finally, the democratization of global governance and corporate governance structures (Parker 2002) are analyzed.”
• Global production networks: realizing the potential (2008, background): “Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/joeg/article-abstract/8/3/271/938286 by guest on 29 July 2018 GPNs are, as Levy (2008) argues, ‘simultaneously economic and political phenomena . . .[they]. . . resemble contested organizational fields in which actors struggle over the construction of…”